1.9% ▼ -81.1%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
South Mission Beach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in South Mission Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people are without a car in South Mission Beach than in 2011, with only 1.9% of homes now lacking a motor vehicle. This shift underscores a heavy reliance on private transport for the local community. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around and get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 46.4% of homes owning two vehicles and 10.6% having three. This explains why the proportion of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In South Mission Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (37%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.2% of residents. Very few people use public transport, at just 0.7%, and the 7.7% who work from home is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
7.7% ▼ -33.7%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -78.3%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 South Mission Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321095/south-mission-beach/topic/transport