4.8% ▼ -65.8%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sapphire · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Sapphire
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 66% of workers in Sapphire drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on private cars. Most homes have at least one vehicle, and the number of households without any motor vehicle has fallen sharply since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have one vehicle, while 30% have two. Only 4.8% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sapphire, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. While 9.6% of people work from home—an increase since 2011—this is still far below the Australian average.
9.6% ▲ +125.2%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Sapphire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321091/sapphire/topic/transport