1.9% ▲ —
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Balgal Beach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Balgal Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 70% of workers in Balgal Beach drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most households here own at least one vehicle, and very few residents rely on working from home or using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 80.9% of homes owning two or more vehicles. Only 1.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Balgal Beach, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is uncommon at 5.6%, a figure far below the national average of 21.0%. While 2.0% of people use public transport—which is much higher than in most similar areas—the vast majority of residents still rely on cars.
5.6% ▼ -42.3%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +63.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
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 Balgal Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321008/balgal-beach/topic/transport