4.1% ▲ +55.2%
Lower than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gympie · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Gympie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most people in Gympie rely on their own car to get around, with 65.8% of workers driving themselves. This strong dependence on private vehicles is reflected in the low use of public transport and a small number of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, as only 4.1% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, though the number of car-free homes has risen slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gympie splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.6%, which is much lower than most areas. Similarly, only 10% of workers do their jobs from home, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%.
10.0% ▲ +11.2%
Lower than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -75.7%
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited in Gympie, with only 86.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure. Buses are the primary option, making up 98.9% of the local service.
173
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.19
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
86.5
Lower than 92% of state electorate 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).
21
Lower than 65% of state electorate 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30032/gympie/topic/transport