Pomona · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Pomona

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

Private cars are essential for daily life in Pomona, where only 2.4% of homes have no motor vehicle. This heavy reliance on driving is a key feature of the area's transport landscape, with the vast majority of residents depending on their own transport to get around.

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📍 Pomona, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 40.8% having two vehicles and 14% having three. This means Pomona has far fewer car-less homes than the Queensland figure of 5.8%, and this number has fallen since 2011.

2.4% ▼ -40.2%

Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.0%
  • 2016: 8.4%
  • 2021: 2.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Pomona, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 66.3% of residents. While 11.8% of people now work from home—a rise of 6.6 percentage points since 2011—very few use public transport, with only 0.5% taking a bus.

11.8% ▲ +126.3%

Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.2%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 11.8%

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

0.5% ▼ -33.9%

Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.8%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 2021: 0.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Pomona, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

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 Pomona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315079/pomona/topic/transport