12.6% ▼ -35.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Arcadia Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Arcadia Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A quarter of workers in Arcadia Bay now work from home, a figure far above the Queensland average. This shift reflects a modern workforce where 25% of people avoid a daily commute entirely. While car travel remains common, the area has a notably higher proportion of households without any motor vehicle compared to most of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 12.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure of 7.4%. This is much higher than most similar areas, though the proportion of car-less homes has fallen by 6.9 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Arcadia Bay, 1 vehicle is the majority at 54%; 2 vehicles is next at 26%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged by 15 percentage points since 2011 and is now far above the Queensland average. Public transport use is also a little above the national figure at 4.3%, which is among the highest for areas of this size.
25.0% ▲ +142.5%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.3% ▼ -29.7%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Arcadia Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322006/arcadia-bay/topic/transport