5.5% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 54% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wide Bay · Region (SA4)
Transport & Vehicles in Wide Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 64 weekly public transport departures per 1,000 people are available in Wide Bay, a figure far below the Queensland average. This makes the region heavily reliant on cars for daily travel. Most homes have at least one vehicle, and very few people use trains or buses to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 94.5% of homes own at least one motor vehicle, with 36.2% having two. The share of households without a car fell to 5.5% in 2021, which is slightly lower than the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wide Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 67.6% of people as the driver. Very few use public transport (0.6%), and only 7.9% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
7.9% ▲ +24.7%
Lower than 78% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -38.9%
Lower than 81% of region (sa4) areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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.
Public transport is limited in Wide Bay, with only 1.52 stops per 1,000 people, far below the Queensland figure. Services are almost entirely buses, with only 34 routes and 469 stops across the region.
469
Lower than 86% of region (sa4) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.52
Lower than 93% of region (sa4) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
64.2
Lower than 95% of region (sa4) 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).
34
Lower than 81% of region (sa4) 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 Wide Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/319/wide-bay/topic/transport