7.9% ▲ +490.4%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tara · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Tara
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A growing number of households in Tara now live without a car, with the figure rising 6.6 percentage points since 2011. While nearly 46% of homes have a single vehicle, the area remains heavily reliant on road transport for daily travel. This shift in vehicle ownership comes as the town sees almost no use of public transport for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.9% of homes in Tara have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Queensland figure. Most households operate with one or two cars, with 45.8% having one and 30.3% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tara, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a surprisingly common way to get to work here at 21.9%, while 59.4% of people drive. Only 4.0% of residents work from home, which is far below the national figure, and no one uses public transport to commute.
4.0% ▲ +38.9%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 4.0%
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: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 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 Tara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321099/tara/topic/transport