13.5% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Charters Towers City · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Charters Towers City
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A striking 13.5% of homes in Charters Towers City have no motor vehicle, a figure well above the national average. While most residents rely on cars, the area has a very low rate of people working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 13.5% of households live without a car, which is much higher than in most similar areas and well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. For those who do own vehicles, 42.9% of homes have one car, while 31.4% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Charters Towers City, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and No vehicle (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive to work (60.7%) or walk (9.4%), while only 5.2% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Public transport use for commuting is low at 2.5%, though this is about the same as the state and national averages.
5.2% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 routes or stops in the area, leaving it far below the Queensland average for service access. This means there are 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 Charters Towers City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30585/charters-towers-city/topic/transport