7.4% —
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rockhampton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Rockhampton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars is the dominant way of getting around in Rockhampton, where 70.2% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. Very few people use public transport or work from home compared to the rest of the country. This makes private vehicles essential for daily life for the vast majority of residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.4% of homes in Rockhampton have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure. Most households keep one or two cars, with 37.5% having one and 36.4% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rockhampton splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 4.2% doing so, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%. Public transport use is also low at 0.9%, though this is still much higher than in most similar areas.
4.2% —
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% —
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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 Rockhampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL311004/rockhampton/topic/transport