Daintree · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Daintree

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

A total reliance on private cars defines transport in Daintree, where not a single household is without a motor vehicle. This makes the area far more car-dependent than the national average, with a complete absence of public transport options for residents.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Daintree has at least one vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. More than half of households have one car, while 22.9% own three.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Daintree, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 50%, followed by 2 vehicles (28%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way people get to work, with 52.3% of workers using a car. Around 18.2% of people work from home, a figure that is well above the Queensland average.

18.2% ▼ -9.1%

Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 20.0%
  • 2016: 22.7%
  • 2021: 18.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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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.

How people get to work

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In Daintree, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Daintree. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure.

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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).

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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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Daintree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30786/daintree/topic/transport