2.8% ▲ —
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mission Beach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mission Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people get around without a car in Mission Beach, making it a place where private transport is much more common than in most similar areas. Only 2.8% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This heavy reliance on cars is reflected in how residents travel for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has at least one vehicle, and about 40% of households own two. The number of homes without a car has risen slightly since 2011 to reach 2.8%, though this remains lower than most areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mission Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 65.1% of residents, while 0.0% use public transport. Working from home has risen to 7.1% since 2011, but this is still far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
7.1% ▲ +62.7%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mission Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321073/mission-beach/topic/transport