5.7% ▼ -15.5%
Higher than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barcaldine · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Barcaldine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer households are without a car in Barcaldine than in 2011, but the area remains heavily reliant on private travel. Most people now drive or work from home, while public transport has virtually disappeared from the daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 5.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure. However, the area is heavily car-reliant, with 28.2% of households owning three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Barcaldine splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (31%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 21.3% of people work from home, a rate that is well above the Queensland average.
21.3% ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
Public transport is almost non-existent here, with zero routes and stops. This means the area has 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Barcaldine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA30410/barcaldine/topic/transport