Capella · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Capella

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

More than 60% of workers in Capella drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This is a place where almost every household relies on a vehicle for transport, and very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.

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📍 Capella, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home in Capella has a car, with only 2.3% of households without one. This is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% and the national figure of 7.4%.

2.3% ▲ +15.9%

Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.0%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 2.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Capella splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is rare here, at just 5.3%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Meanwhile, use of public transport for work rose to 2.1% since 2011, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.

5.3% ▲ +31.0%

Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.0%
  • 2016: 8.2%
  • 2021: 5.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

2.1% ▲ —

Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 2.1%

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 Capella, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Walked 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 Capella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321028/capella/topic/transport