6.5% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rockhampton · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Rockhampton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving a car is the primary way to get around Rockhampton, with 70.1% of workers commuting as the driver. Most households rely on their own transport, as only 6.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is reflected in a very low rate of people working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 37% of households in Rockhampton have two vehicles, while 36% have just one. The proportion of homes without a car has barely changed since 2011, sitting at 6.5%, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rockhampton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 4.2%, a figure that fell since 2011 and is far below the national average. Public transport use is also low, with only 1% of workers using it, though this is still higher than in most similar areas.
4.2% ▼ -38.7%
Lower than 85% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -24.5%
Higher than 66% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 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.
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 Rockhampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3014/rockhampton/topic/transport