3.6% ▼ -65.5%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Noosa · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Noosa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 17 point jump in working from home since 2011 defines the shift in Noosa, where 19.8% of people now work from their residence. This trend reflects a move away from traditional commuting, as the area has become increasingly reliant on private cars and home offices.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 96.4% of homes owning at least one vehicle. Only 3.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much lower than most areas and has fallen 6.9 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Noosa splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, while public transport use is much lower than most areas at just 0.9%. This is a sharp decline from 2011, when nearly 15% of the workforce used public transit.
19.8% ▲ +618.2%
Higher than 69% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -93.9%
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
Bus services make up nearly all of the 19 public transport routes in the area. While there are 189 stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is well above the Queensland figure.
189
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.85
Lower than 66% 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).
950.9
Lower than 52% 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).
19
Lower than 70% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Noosa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30066/noosa/topic/transport