5.0% ▼ -16.8%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Smithtown - Gladstone · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Smithtown - Gladstone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More homes here lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas, though Smithtown - Gladstone (L) remains heavily reliant on cars. Very few people use public transport or work from home, with the vast majority of the workforce commuting by car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011. Most households have at least one car, with 40.9% owning two and 13.8% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Smithtown - Gladstone, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, and only 4.4% work from home, which is far below the national figure. Most of the workforce relies on driving, with 67.7% commuting as the driver.
4.4% ▼ -40.6%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Smithtown - Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121103/smithtown-gladstone/topic/transport