Yeppoon · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Yeppoon

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

Nearly 65% of working residents in Yeppoon drive themselves to work. While most homes have at least one car, a surprising 9.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most other areas.

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📍 Yeppoon, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 40% of homes have one car and 34% have two. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

9.3% ▼ -34.4%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.1%
  • 2016: 10.5%
  • 2021: 9.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Yeppoon, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Very few people work from home here at 5.3%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21.0%. Public transport use for commuting is also low at 1.6%, which is a little below the national figure.

5.3% ▲ +46.7%

Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.6%
  • 2016: 3.5%
  • 2021: 5.3%

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

1.6% ▼ -13.3%

Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.9%
  • 2016: 2.4%
  • 2021: 1.6%

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 Yeppoon, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Car (passenger) is next at 7%.

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. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.

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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).

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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 Yeppoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33219/yeppoon/topic/transport