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.
Toogoom · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Toogoom splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (43%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Toogoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315094/toogoom/topic/transport