46.2% ▼ -6.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.2%
- 2016: 46.4%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Badu Island · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Badu Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all homes on Badu Island have no motor vehicle. This lack of cars shapes how people move, with a very high number of residents walking or driving to work, while almost no one uses public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 46.2% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the 5.8% seen in Queensland. For those who do own cars, 36% have just one vehicle, while 14.5% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Badu Island, the largest group is No vehicle at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a common choice, with 30.5% of workers walking to their jobs. Very few people work from home at 1.7%, a figure far below the national rate of 21%.
1.7% ▲ +48.3%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 on the island. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are at 0.0, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 Badu Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30113/badu-island/topic/transport