13.0% ▼ -23.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Childers · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Childers
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Well above the national figure, 12.5% of people in Childers use public transport to get to work. This reliance on shared travel is unusual for the region, though the town still sees a significant number of households without their own car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 13% of homes in Childers have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. While this is among the highest rates for similar areas, it has fallen 3.9 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Childers, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and No vehicle (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting is much higher here than the national 3.1%, and walking to work is common at 13.6%. Conversely, only 6.9% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
6.9% ▲ +8.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
12.5% ▲ +54.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
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 Childers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315019/childers/topic/transport