33.7% ▲ +544.4%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 33.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
New Mapoon · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in New Mapoon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 45% of workers in New Mapoon use a car as the driver to get to work. This is a place where car use is common for many, but over a third of homes now have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A striking 33.7% of homes in New Mapoon have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. This number has risen by 28 percentage points since 2011, and the most common situation is for a home to have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →New Mapoon splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and No vehicle (34%), with 2 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one works from home here, a figure far below the 21.0% national average. While 44.8% of people drive to work, walking is also common at 18.8%, and 3.1% use public transport.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.1% ▲ +97.9%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 New Mapoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322092/new-mapoon/topic/transport