4.2% —
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tablelands · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Tablelands
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people rely on public transport in Tablelands than in the rest of the state or country. With no public transport stops or routes recorded, the area depends almost entirely on private cars to get around. This is reflected in the fact that 95.8% of homes here own at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 38.5% owning two and 14.3% owning three. Only 4.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tablelands splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 60.9% of people being the driver. Working from home is used by 11.1% of the workforce, a figure that rose 2.2 points since 2016 but remains well below the national rate of 21%.
11.1% —
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% —
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 the area. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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 Tablelands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36820/tablelands/topic/transport