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Transport & Vehicles in Canberra - Queanbeyan

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Fewer people work from home in Canberra - Queanbeyan compared to the national average, though public transport use is slightly more common. Most residents rely on cars, with 59.9% of workers driving themselves to their jobs. This reflects a typical regional pattern where vehicle ownership is high and commuting is dominated by private transport.

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📍 Canberra - Queanbeyan, Urban Area

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 5.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have one or two vehicles, while 5.5% of homes remain without one, down slightly from 2011.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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5.5% ▼ -13.1%

Lower than 62% of urban area areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Canberra - Queanbeyan splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

1 vehicle 39.1% 2 vehicles 38.5% 3 vehicles 11.1% 4 or more 5.7% No vehicle 5.5%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home rose to 10.7% since 2011, though this is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Public transport use sits at 4.3%, which is a little above the Australian average and among the highest for similar areas.

People working from home

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10.7% ▲ +306.7%

Higher than 68% of urban area areas.

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

Commuting by public transport

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4.3% ▼ -18.6%

Higher than 98% of urban area areas.

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.

How people get to work

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In Canberra - Queanbeyan, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Car (driver) 59.9% Worked at home 10.7% Car (passenger) 5.1% Walked 3.8% Bus 3.4% Bicycle 2.0% Train 0.0%

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 Canberra - Queanbeyan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/8001/canberra-queanbeyan/topic/transport