6.0% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dalby · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Dalby
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Dalby use public transport to get to work than in most similar areas, though the town remains heavily reliant on cars. Very few residents work from home, with only 4.7% doing so, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 37.2% owning two vehicles. While 6.0% of households have no motor vehicle—a figure that is higher than most similar areas—this is slightly lower than the Australian average of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dalby splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 70.0% of people as the driver and 6.3% as a passenger. Only 0.8% of workers use public transport, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and sits well below the Queensland average of 3.0%.
4.7% ▲ +75.7%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▲ +74.4%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Dalby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313003/dalby/topic/transport