4.2% ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gympie - Cooloola · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Gympie - Cooloola
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 65.5% of workers in Gympie - Cooloola drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most homes here have at least one vehicle, and very few people rely on public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 4.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This is a continuing trend, as the number of car-less homes fell 1.9 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gympie - Cooloola splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 10.4% of people doing so. Public transport use is also very low, with just 0.6% of workers using it to get to work.
10.4% ▲ +29.6%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -33.2%
Lower than 80% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
While there are 3.26 stops per 1,000 people, the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure. Most of the limited public transport options are buses, which make up 98.9% of the services.
173
Lower than 68% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.26
Lower than 72% 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).
88.3
Lower than 82% 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).
21
Lower than 60% of sub-region (sa3) 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 to the city takes a long time here, with a typical drive time of 127 minutes, which is among the highest for areas at this level.
127
Higher than 88% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Gympie - Cooloola [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31903/gympie-cooloola/topic/transport