5.1% ▼ -54.5%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Thuringowa · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Thuringowa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower percentage of people work from home in Thuringowa compared to the rest of the country. Only 4% of the local workforce does so, while the national figure is 21%. This heavy reliance on traditional commuting is mirrored by a strong dependence on private cars for travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 39.9% owning two and 14.1% owning three. Only 5.1% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 6.1 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Thuringowa, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 72.7% of people being the driver and another 6.3% travelling as passengers. Public transport use is very low at just 1%, which is a little below the national figure of 3.1%.
4.0% ▲ +44.1%
Lower than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 options are limited, with only 7 routes and 132 stops across the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are well below the Queensland figure, and all available services are buses.
132
Lower than 79% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.54
Lower than 87% 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).
495.2
Lower than 70% 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).
7
Lower than 90% 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 Thuringowa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30084/thuringowa/topic/transport