6.0% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bowen · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bowen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A reliance on cars has remained steady in Bowen, where 66.5% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While most households own at least one vehicle, a small number of residents rely on other means of travel. This is a place where private transport dominates daily movement.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6% of homes in Bowen have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most households have one or two cars, with 38.7% owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bowen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here at just 4.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use for work is also low at 2.3%, though this is much higher than in most similar areas.
4.8% ▲ +18.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.3% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 in the area. This puts Bowen far below the Queensland figure for service access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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 Bowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30342/bowen/topic/transport