5.1% ▼ -57.3%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Chinchilla · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Chinchilla
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving a car is the primary way to get around Chinchilla, with nearly 65% of workers heading to their jobs as the driver. Most households here own one or two vehicles, though the number of homes without any motor vehicle has fallen significantly since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 38% of households have one vehicle and another 37.5% have two. While 5.1% of homes have no motor vehicle—which is higher than most similar areas—this is a big drop from the 11.9% recorded in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Chinchilla splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 5.8% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use for commuting has risen slightly to 3.1% since 2011, putting Chinchilla among the highest for this at its level.
5.8% ▲ +111.7%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.1% ▲ +62.1%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Chinchilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314008/chinchilla/topic/transport