Isaac · Council (LGA)

Transport & Vehicles in Isaac

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

Far fewer people live without a car in Isaac than in the rest of Australia. Only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has remained steady since 2011. This high reliance on private cars is common across the region's vast landscape.

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📍 Isaac, Council (LGA)

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have multiple cars, with 40.8% owning two and 10.5% owning four or more. This means the 2.5% of homes without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

2.5% ▲ +1.7%

Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.

  • 2011: 2.5%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 2.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Isaac, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 59.5% of people as the main driver. Only 7.7% of residents work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

7.7% ▲ +36.4%

Lower than 76% of council (lga) areas.

  • 2011: 5.6%
  • 2016: 7.0%
  • 2021: 7.7%

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

3.3% ▲ +1.7%

Higher than 77% of council (lga) areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 3.3%

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 Isaac, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 9%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is almost non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Isaac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33980/isaac/topic/transport