5.5% ▼ -41.2%
Lower than 62% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Townsville · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Townsville
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Townsville relies on a car to get around, with only 5.5% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This reliance is reflected in the daily commute, where the vast majority of workers drive themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 39.9% own two. Far fewer homes are without a vehicle now than in 2011, when the figure was 9.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Townsville splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 71.1% of people as the main driver. Very few residents work from home at 4.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
4.8% ▲ +22.0%
Lower than 79% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ +186.7%
Higher than 64% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Townsville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3017/townsville/topic/transport