4.8% ▼ -27.3%
Lower than 65% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wide Bay · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Wide Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 62% of workers in Wide Bay drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. This is an area where private vehicles are essential, as public transport options are very limited and the typical drive to the city takes 143 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 37.8% of homes owning two vehicles and 13.9% owning three. Only 4.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wide Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.6%. Meanwhile, 13.3% of the workforce now works from home, a figure that rose 4.8 points since 2016 but remains well below the national figure.
13.3% —
Lower than 57% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% —
Lower than 85% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 sparse, with only 30 routes and 378 stops across the region. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure, and the service is almost entirely buses.
378
Lower than 90% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.48
Lower than 90% 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).
344.4
Lower than 82% 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).
30
Lower than 86% 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.
Travel times are very long in this region, with the drive time to the city being among the highest for similar areas at 143 minutes.
143
Higher than 97% 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 Wide Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED329/wide-bay/topic/transport