4.4% ▼ -56.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blackall · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Blackall
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of working residents in Blackall drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is common in the region, where public transport is virtually non-existent and most homes own at least one vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have at least one car, with 33.8% owning two and 13.3% owning three. Only 4.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Blackall splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 56.1% of people, while 10% walk. About 15.2% work from home, which is a little above the state average, but well below the national figure of 21%.
15.2% ▲ +18.4%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 15.2%
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: 0.5%
- 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.
Public transport is entirely absent in Blackall, with no routes or stops. This means weekly departures and stops per person are far below the Queensland average.
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Blackall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30270/blackall/topic/transport