Toogoom · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Toogoom

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

Nearly 68% of working residents in Toogoom drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars. Very few households get by without a vehicle, and public transport is not used for commuting. This makes private transport the primary way people move around the area.

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📍 Toogoom, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home in Toogoom has a car, with only 1.8% having none, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Most households own one or two vehicles, while 15.5% have three or more.

1.8% ▲ +114.2%

Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.8%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 1.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Toogoom splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (43%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national average of 3.1%. While working from home rose to 9.2% since 2011, this remains far below the Australian figure of 21%.

9.2% ▲ +388.3%

Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.9%
  • 2016: 7.2%
  • 2021: 9.2%

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: 0.9%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Toogoom, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

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 Toogoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315094/toogoom/topic/transport