0.8% ▼ -83.5%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alice River · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Alice River
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower percentage of people work from home in Alice River compared to the rest of the country. This is a place where almost every home owns a car, with very few residents relying on public transport or remote work to get through their day.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 0.8% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the Queensland and Australian averages. Most households are well-equipped, with 45.5% owning two vehicles and another 39.2% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Alice River, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 4 or more (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work for 73.3% of residents, while only 0.6% use public transport. Just 5.7% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure and lower than most other areas.
5.7% ▲ +157.3%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -54.0%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Alice River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315002/alice-river/topic/transport