28.5% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yarrabah · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Yarrabah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 29% of homes in Yarrabah have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national average. This high rate of vehicle absence shapes daily life in the area, where residents rely more heavily on other ways to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 28.5% of households here do not have a car, which is far above the 7.4% seen across Australia. For those who do own vehicles, 34.8% have one car, while 25.1% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yarrabah, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 35%, followed by No vehicle (29%) and 2 vehicles (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here, at just 2.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Most residents drive to work, with 58.3% as the driver and 14.1% as a passenger, while 13.3% walk.
2.8% ▲ —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -53.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 stops or routes in the area. Consequently, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33207/yarrabah/topic/transport