5.4% ▼ -24.3%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Toowoomba · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Toowoomba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Toowoomba than in the rest of Australia, with only 8.4% doing so. This high reliance on traditional workplaces is mirrored in the way people travel, as the vast majority of residents depend on cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 37.9% owning two vehicles. Only 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is a little below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Toowoomba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 69% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.3%), which is lower than most areas and barely changed since 2011.
8.4% ▲ +54.5%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -40.9%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Toowoomba has 652 public transport stops, which is more than about 89% of similar areas and well above the Queensland figure. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
652
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.76
Higher than 56% 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).
327.8
Higher than 66% 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).
8
Higher than 52% 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 into the city takes much longer than in most areas, with a typical drive time of 119 minutes.
119
Higher than 84% 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 Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36910/toowoomba/topic/transport