28.5% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yarrabah · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Yarrabah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most people in Yarrabah rely on cars to get around, with 58.3% of workers driving themselves to their jobs. However, the area faces significant transport gaps, as nearly 29% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is far above the national figure of 7.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 28.5% of homes in Yarrabah have no motor vehicle, which is far above the 5.8% seen across Queensland. While this figure has fallen slightly since 2011, it remains among the highest for similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yarrabah, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 35%, followed by No vehicle (29%) and 2 vehicles (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here, at just 2.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use for work is also low at 1.5%, though this is actually higher than most similar areas.
2.8% ▲ —
Lower than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -57.8%
Higher than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Yarrabah. This means the area has zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average 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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA37600/yarrabah/topic/transport