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.
Sarina · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sarina splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -68.4%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
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.
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