1.7% ▼ -91.5%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 48.7%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Plainland · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Plainland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Plainland depends on a car for their daily needs. Only 1.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, meaning the area is far more car-reliant than the rest of Queensland and Australia. This heavy reliance on private transport defines how people move around the locality.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 39.6% owning two and 21.3% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle has plummeted by 18 percentage points since 2011, leaving the local rate well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Plainland, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 67.2% of people using a car as the driver. While 9.5% now work from home—a rise of 7.3 percentage points since 2011—no one in the area uses public transport to commute.
9.5% ▲ +330.6%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 9.5%
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: 0.7%
- 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 Plainland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321083/plainland/topic/transport