Cloncurry · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Cloncurry

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Far more homes in Cloncurry have no motor vehicle than in the rest of the country. While 10.5% of households lack a car, a small number of people have now started using public transport to get to work. This shift is part of a broader transport landscape where most residents still rely on private cars.

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📍 Cloncurry, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 10.5% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. This is a rising trend, as the number of carless homes grew by 3.9 percentage points since 2011.

10.5% ▲ +59.4%

Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.6%
  • 2016: 9.9%
  • 2021: 10.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Cloncurry splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Very few people work from home at 4.1%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Most workers drive themselves to work (58%), though 12.4% walk and 1.3% use public transport.

4.1% ▼ -26.2%

Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.6%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 4.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.3% ▲ —

Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.4%
  • 2021: 1.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Cloncurry, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Walked is next at 15%.

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 Cloncurry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315022/cloncurry/topic/transport