14.3% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 47.8%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Tarawera · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tarawera
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on the bus is unusually high in Tarawera, where 21.4% of workers use public transport to get to their jobs. This is far above the national and state figures, which both sit around 3%. Most people still rely on cars or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 29%, ahead of 2 vehicles (29%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tarawera splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (50%) and 2 vehicles (50%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 40.5% of workers drive, the 21.4% who use public transport is among the highest for similar areas. About 14.3% of people work from home, which is about the same as the Queensland figure but well below the Australian average.
21.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
Despite the high number of people using public transport to commute, there are no public transport stops or routes recorded in the area. This puts Tarawera 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tarawera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32749/tarawera/topic/transport