5.9% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 53% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Toowoomba · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Toowoomba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 70% of workers in Toowoomba drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This heavy reliance on private vehicles is mirrored in the home, where the vast majority of households own at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Toowoomba have one or two vehicles, with 37.9% owning two and 36.9% owning one. Only 5.9% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the Queensland average and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Toowoomba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use is very low at just 0.3%, a figure that is much lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011. Working from home rose to 7.2% over the last decade, though this remains far below the national figure of 21%.
7.2% ▲ +208.0%
Lower than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -77.7%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3016/toowoomba/topic/transport