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Transport & Vehicles in Not in any Significant Urban Area

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

Only 4.6% of homes lack a motor vehicle in Not in any Significant Urban Area (Qld), a figure much lower than most other areas. This makes car ownership almost universal across these vast regions. Most households rely on multiple vehicles to get around, with nearly half having two or more.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost 48% of homes have three or more motor vehicles. The proportion of households without a car has fallen to 4.6% since 2011, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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4.6% ▼ -21.8%

Lower than 79% of urban area areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Not in any Significant Urban Area, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

2 vehicles 37.7% 1 vehicle 31.6% 3 vehicles 15.8% 4 or more 10.3% No vehicle 4.6%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 60.7% of people drive themselves to work, while 11.4% work from home, a figure that has risen since 2011. Very few people use public transport, with only 1.3% doing so to get to work.

People working from home

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11.4% ▲ +31.2%

Higher than 72% of urban area areas.

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

Commuting by public transport

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1.3% ▼ -22.0%

Higher than 74% of urban area areas.

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 Not in any Significant Urban Area, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

Car (driver) 60.7% Worked at home 11.4% Car (passenger) 5.3% Walked 5.2% Bus 1.1% Bicycle 0.4% Train 0.0%

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/transport