54.1% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.9%
- 2016: 43.9%
- 2021: 54.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pormpuraaw · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pormpuraaw
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of all homes in Pormpuraaw have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure. This makes the community very different from the rest of the country, where car ownership is the norm for almost every household.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over 54% of households here do not own a car, a rate far above the 7.4% typical across Australia. Only about 11.6% of homes have two vehicles, and just 2.1% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pormpuraaw, No vehicle is the majority at 54%; 1 vehicle is next at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 60.4% of people, while 0% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in Pormpuraaw. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure.
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 Pormpuraaw [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32349/pormpuraaw/topic/transport