5.9% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gladstone · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Gladstone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people use public transport to get to work in Gladstone than they did in 2011. While most homes own at least one car, only 3.7% of the workforce operates from home, which is far below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, with 38.1% owning two. Around 5.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and is about the same as the Queensland average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gladstone splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around, with 70.8% of workers as the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.7%, and public transport use is a little below the national figure at 0.7%.
3.7% ▲ +82.5%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -61.7%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL312002/gladstone/topic/transport