5.1% ▼ -47.1%
Lower than 71% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gold Coast - Tweed Heads · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has jumped by 10 percentage points since 2011 in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads. This shift happens in a region where car reliance remains high and public transport use is low. Most residents depend on their own vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes are without a car, with only 5.1% having none, a figure that has fallen 4.5 points since 2011. Most households have at least two vehicles, with 38.8% owning exactly two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gold Coast - Tweed Heads splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much more common here than in most similar areas, accounting for 13.9% of trips. This is a stark contrast to public transport use, which is just 1.6% and sits a little below the national figure.
13.9% ▲ +254.3%
Higher than 78% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▲ +70.6%
Higher than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
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.
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 Gold Coast - Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3007/gold-coast-tweed-heads/topic/transport