4.9% ▼ -21.0%
Lower than 65% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nicholls · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Nicholls
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A long 131-minute drive to the city marks the remote nature of Nicholls, where most residents rely on their own cars. Very few people use public transport, and the typical home has more than one vehicle to manage the distance.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Nicholls own multiple cars, with 37.2% having two vehicles. Only 4.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Nicholls splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, while only 0.3% of people use public transport, one of the lowest rates for similar areas. Working from home is also far below the state average at 11.0%.
11.0% —
Lower than 69% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% —
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited here, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being far below the state figure. Most of the available services are buses, accounting for 97.1% of the network.
659
Lower than 71% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.13
Lower than 66% of federal electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
242.0
Lower than 87% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
62
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is challenging for those without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 21 minutes, which is much higher than in most areas.
21
Higher than 74% of federal electorate areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
131
Higher than 95% of federal electorate areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Nicholls [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED236/nicholls/topic/transport