4.2% ▼ -30.6%
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gympie · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Gympie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes without cars is the main trend for Gympie, where only 4.2% of households lack a vehicle. This reliance on private transport is reflected in how people get to work and the long drive times to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 37.9% owning two and 14.9% owning three. The 4.2% of households without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gympie splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel for work, with 65.5% of people as the driver. Only 0.6% use public transport, while 10.4% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.4% ▲ +29.6%
Lower than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -32.8%
Lower than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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.
Buses make up almost all local services, providing 173 stops across 21 routes. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure.
173
Higher than 70% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.25
Higher than 50% 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).
88.1
Higher than 53% 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).
21
Higher than 71% of council (lga) 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 to the city takes much longer than in most areas, with a typical drive time of 125 minutes.
125
Higher than 86% of council (lga) 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33620/gympie/topic/transport