4.8% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blackwater · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Blackwater
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Daily life in Blackwater relies heavily on private cars, though public transport use has climbed. Most households own multiple vehicles to get around, and 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 in Blackwater have at least one car, with 39.7% owning two vehicles. Only 4.8% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and is a little below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Blackwater, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 6.7% of people use public transport to get to work, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figures. In contrast, only 2.5% of residents work from home, a rate that is far below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
2.5% ▼ -29.6%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.7% ▲ +163.2%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Blackwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315008/blackwater/topic/transport