Doomadgee · Council (LGA)

Transport & Vehicles in Doomadgee

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

More than a third of homes in Doomadgee have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure. This lack of private transport is common here, though the number of car-less households has fallen by 16 percentage points since 2011.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 35.5% of households do not have a car, a figure far above the 7.4% seen across Australia. For those who do own vehicles, 41.5% of homes have just one car.

35.5% ▼ -31.4%

Higher than 96% of council (lga) areas.

  • 2011: 51.7%
  • 2016: 51.8%
  • 2021: 35.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Doomadgee, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by No vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (13%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is the most common way to get to work at 42.3%, while only 1.3% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Very few people use public transport, though this rose slightly to 1.7% since 2011.

1.3% ▲ —

Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 1.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.7% ▲ —

Higher than 62% of council (lga) areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.2%
  • 2021: 1.7%

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.

How people get to work

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In Doomadgee, the largest group is Walked at 47%, followed by Car (driver) (27%) and Car (passenger) (23%).

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland average.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Doomadgee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA32770/doomadgee/topic/transport