64.8% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 71.2%
- 2016: 69.3%
- 2021: 64.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Aurukun · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Aurukun
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people have gained access to cars in Aurukun since 2011, though the area remains very different from the rest of the country. Roughly 65% of homes still have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 65% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that fell by 6.4 points since 2011. This is far above the 7.4% seen across Australia, with only 30% of local households owning a single car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Aurukun, No vehicle is the majority at 62%; 1 vehicle is next at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the main way people get to work here, accounting for 61.2% of trips. No one uses public transport or works from home, which is far below national figures.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Aurukun. This leaves the area with far fewer departures and stops per person than the Queensland average.
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) 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).
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Aurukun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA30250/aurukun/topic/transport