53.7% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 67.1%
- 2016: 60.4%
- 2021: 53.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Torres Strait Island · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Torres Strait Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 46% of people walk to work in Torres Strait Island, where transport is very different from the mainland. More than half of all homes do not have a motor vehicle, which is a much higher rate than across Queensland and Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over half of homes (53.7%) have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national average, though this fell by 13 percentage points since 2011. Just 9.8% of households have two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Torres Strait Island, No vehicle is the majority at 54%; 1 vehicle is next at 34%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 45.7% of people. Only 2.1% work from home, which is far below the 21% national figure, while 1.2% use public transport.
2.1% ▲ +74.1%
Lower than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure.
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 Torres Strait Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36960/torres-strait-island/topic/transport