5.1% ▼ -24.1%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gladstone · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Gladstone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just 0.7% of workers in Gladstone use public transport to get to their jobs. This makes the area heavily reliant on cars, with very few people working from home compared to the rest of the country. Most households here own at least one motor vehicle to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39% of Gladstone homes have two vehicles, and only 5.1% have none. This lack of car-free homes is lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gladstone splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the primary way to get to work, with 70.4% of people driving. Meanwhile, only 4.1% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.1% ▼ -23.7%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -72.9%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
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 Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3006/gladstone/topic/transport