3.5% ▲ +13.5%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Emerald · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Emerald
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Emerald relies on a car for daily life, with only 3.5% of homes having no motor vehicle. This makes the area much more dependent on private transport than the national average. Most residents use a car to get to work, and very few people have the option to work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 40.5% of homes owning two vehicles and another 23.7% owning three or more. Only 3.5% of households are without a car, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Emerald, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 66.8% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.9%, which is far below the Queensland figure of 14.1%, while public transport use is a little above the national rate at 4.2%.
3.9% ▲ +28.3%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.2% ▼ -21.0%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Emerald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313004/emerald/topic/transport