24.0% ▲ +184.8%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Thursday Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Thursday Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Walking is a primary way to get around Thursday Island, where few people work from home. This island community has a unique transport mix, with nearly a quarter of all homes having no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 24% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the figures for Queensland and Australia. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 8.4% of households were without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Thursday Island, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by No vehicle (24%) and 2 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is common for the trip to work, used by 23.9% of people. Only 3.7% of residents work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
3.7% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▲ +415.7%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.2%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315091/thursday-island/topic/transport