7.3% ▲ +11.0%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Toowoomba · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Toowoomba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people live without a car in Toowoomba than in most similar areas. While 7.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, the vast majority of the population relies on cars to get around, with 70% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own one or two cars, though 7.3% of homes have no motor vehicle. This figure is a little above the Queensland rate and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Toowoomba, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 6.6%. Public transport use is also very low at 0.4%, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and sits a little below both state and national levels.
6.6% ▲ +1.3%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -72.3%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.4%
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/ucl/UCL303002/toowoomba/topic/transport