Sarina · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Sarina

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

A heavy reliance on cars defines daily travel in Sarina, where nearly 69% of workers drive themselves to work. While almost every home has a vehicle, very few residents work from home or use public transport. This makes the car the primary way people get around and access services.

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📍 Sarina, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes in Sarina have one or two cars, and only 5.4% have no motor vehicle. This figure is about the same as the Queensland average, though it has fallen by 7 percentage points since 2011.

5.4% ▼ -56.4%

Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 12.4%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 5.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Sarina splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is rare here, with only 3% of people doing so, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use is also very low at 1.1%, a figure that has dropped since 2011.

3.0% ▼ -63.4%

Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 3.0%

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

1.1% ▼ -68.4%

Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 1.1%

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 Sarina, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 7%.

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 Sarina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315088/sarina/topic/transport