46.2% ▲ +3467.9%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kowanyama · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Kowanyama
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work in Kowanyama, with 43.3% of workers doing so. This is a place where nearly half of all homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has climbed sharply since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 46.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Queensland figure of 5.8% and the national figure of 7.4%. This represents a huge jump from 2011, when only 1.3% of homes lacked a vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kowanyama, the largest group is No vehicle at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport or works from home, which is far below national and state figures. Instead, 43.3% of people walk to work, while 40.7% arrive by car.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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: 1.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
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 Kowanyama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321062/kowanyama/topic/transport