6.9% ▼ -18.8%
Higher than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gympie · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Gympie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way of getting around Gympie, where 70.6% of workers commute by car. Most households rely on their own vehicles for daily travel, and very few people use public transport or work from home compared to other parts of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the Queensland figure. However, this is a slight improvement from 2011, when 8.5% of households lacked a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gympie splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.7% of people use public transport for work, a figure that is a little below the state and national averages. Working from home is also uncommon at 5.5%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
5.5% ▲ +19.2%
Lower than 72% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3008/gympie/topic/transport