7.2% ▼ -25.9%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Charters Towers · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Charters Towers
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Relying on cars is the norm for daily life in Charters Towers, where most workers drive themselves to their jobs. While 7.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, this is a drop from 9.7% in 2011. Very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, while 5.3% of households own four or more. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is much higher than most similar areas, though it sits about the same as the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Charters Towers splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, at just 4.3%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%. Most people commute by car, while the 3.0% who use public transport is among the highest for areas of this type.
4.3% ▲ +66.3%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.0% ▼ -24.2%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Charters Towers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314007/charters-towers/topic/transport