Ravenshoe · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ravenshoe

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

Relying on a car is almost essential for daily life in Ravenshoe, where public transport is virtually non-existent. While most homes have at least one vehicle, about 9.8% of the workforce avoids the commute entirely by working from home.

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📍 Ravenshoe, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households keep one or two cars, with 43.6% having a single vehicle and 33.2% having two. About 6.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.

6.3% ▼ -23.7%

Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.2%
  • 2016: 7.8%
  • 2021: 6.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Ravenshoe, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Over half of workers drive themselves to work, while 10.7% simply walk. Very few people use public transport for their commute at 1.0%, and the 9.8% who work from home is far below the national figure.

9.8% ▼ -17.4%

Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.8%
  • 2016: 11.2%
  • 2021: 9.8%

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

1.0% ▼ -65.1%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 1.0%

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 Ravenshoe, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Walked is next at 14%.

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. This means weekly departures and stops per person are far below the Queensland average.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ravenshoe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32396/ravenshoe/topic/transport