6.7% ▼ -12.8%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bowen · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Bowen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Two-thirds of workers in Bowen drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on private cars for commuting. Most households own at least one vehicle, though a small number of people here use public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Bowen have one or two cars, with 37.9% owning two vehicles. About 6.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas, though this is slightly down from 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bowen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare in Bowen, with only 3.8% of people doing so—a figure far below the national rate of 21%. Public transport use for work is 2.5%, which is much higher than most similar areas, despite being about the same as the Queensland figure.
3.8% ▲ +18.5%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Bowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314006/bowen/topic/transport