45.7% ▼ -49.4%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 90.3%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 45.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hammond Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Hammond Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all homes in Hammond Island now have a motor vehicle, a massive shift from 2011 when almost everyone lived without one. While car ownership is rising, the community remains very different from the mainland, with 45.7% of households still owning no vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 46% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the figures for Queensland and Australia. This is a huge drop from 2011, when 90.3% of households were without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hammond Island splits fairly evenly between No vehicle (46%) and 1 vehicle (42%), with 2 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work here, used by 19% of residents. Very few people work from home at 8.9%, and no one uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure.
8.9% ▲ +159.2%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Hammond Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322056/hammond-island/topic/transport