15.5% ▲ +17.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boulia · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Boulia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A high number of households without cars sets Boulia apart from similar areas. While nearly 16% of homes lack a motor vehicle—far more than the national figure—the town remains heavily reliant on private transport for those who do have them.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 15.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the 5.8% seen across Queensland. For those with cars, the most common setup is a single vehicle, held by 35.9% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Boulia, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 38%, followed by 2 vehicles (24%) and No vehicle (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 42.4% of people, though 19.2% walk. No one uses public transport to commute, and the 13.9% who work from home is well below the national figure.
13.9% ▲ +164.2%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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 non-existent here, with zero stops and routes available. This puts Boulia far below the Queensland average for transport access.
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 Boulia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30340/boulia/topic/transport