28.0% —
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yarrabah · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Yarrabah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes lack a car in Yarrabah than in most similar areas. This means 28% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than the national figure of 7.4%. While the number of car-free homes has fallen slightly since 2016, transport remains a distinct challenge here.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 28% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the Queensland average of 5.8%. For those who do have transport, 38.6% of homes have one vehicle, while 24.2% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yarrabah, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 38%, followed by No vehicle (28%) and 2 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here at 2.1%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Most people commute by car, but walking is a common choice for 14.7% of workers.
2.1% —
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.2% —
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315108/yarrabah/topic/transport