70.0% ▼ -22.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 90.3%
- 2016: 80.4%
- 2021: 70.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Iama Island · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Iama Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Roughly 70% of homes on Iama Island have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national average. This lack of private cars is mirrored by a total absence of public transport services. Most people here get to work by walking.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The vast majority of households have no car, which is far above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Only 28.6% of homes have one vehicle, and none have two or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Iama Island, No vehicle is the majority at 71%; 1 vehicle is next at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the primary way to get to work for 53.8% of residents. No one works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 completely unavailable on the island, with zero routes or stops. This is far below the Queensland average for stops and 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Iama Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31379/iama-island/topic/transport