5.4% ▼ -14.9%
Lower than 51% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Townsville · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Townsville
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Lower public transport use than most similar areas marks the way people move around Townsville. Only 0.9% of the workforce uses public transit for their daily commute, while the vast majority of households rely on private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Townsville have at least one car, with 39.9% owning two vehicles. Only 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is slightly lower than the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Townsville splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 70.6% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 5.1%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
5.1% ▲ +101.8%
Lower than 93% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -37.9%
Lower than 68% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
Bus services make up 100% of the public transport network, with 636 stops across the region. While the number of stops is higher than about 85% of similar areas, the number of weekly departures is a little below the Queensland figure.
636
Higher than 85% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.30
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
592.8
Lower than 56% of sub-region (sa3) 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).
16
Lower than 68% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Townsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31802/townsville/topic/transport