5.7% ▼ -14.3%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Townsville · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Townsville
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the dominant way to get around Townsville, where 71.1% of workers drive themselves to work. This heavy reliance on vehicles is reflected in the home, with nearly 40% of households owning two cars. Very few people use other options, with less than 1% of the population commuting by public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Townsville have at least one car, though 5.7% have none. This is a little below the national figure and is slightly lower than it was in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Townsville splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 4.7%. Meanwhile, public transport use is much higher than in most similar areas, though it still sits a little below the state and national figures at 0.9%.
4.7% ▲ +109.7%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -37.8%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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/ucl/UCL303003/townsville/topic/transport