6.8% ▲ +373.5%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Taroom · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Taroom
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Taroom than in the rest of the country, with only 5.4% doing so. This highlights a local workforce that relies heavily on physical presence and personal travel to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though the number of households without any motor vehicle has risen to 6.8%. This is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Taroom splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.6% of residents, while 14.8% walk. Public transport use has completely disappeared since 2011, falling to 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
5.4% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.4%
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: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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 Taroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321100/taroom/topic/transport