7.4% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Longreach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Longreach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work in Longreach, where a car is the essential way to get around. Most homes have one or two vehicles, though the share of households without a car is much higher here than in most other areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.4% of homes in Longreach have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Queensland figure. This is an improvement from 2011, when 9.5% of homes lacked a vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Longreach, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, at just 5.2%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Most people drive to work, while 10% walk and 0% use public transport.
5.2% ▲ +63.1%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Longreach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315053/longreach/topic/transport