Yabulu · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Yabulu

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Far fewer people live without a car in Yabulu than in the rest of Australia. This area is heavily dependent on private transport, with very few residents working from home compared to national figures. Most people here rely on their own vehicles to get to work.

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📍 Yabulu, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 2.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. This is a decrease of 4.1 percentage points since 2011, and most homes now have two or more vehicles.

2.2% ▼ -65.3%

Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.2%
  • 2016: 5.3%
  • 2021: 2.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Yabulu splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is rare here at 4.4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Most of the workforce travels by car, as only 1.5% of people use public transport to get to work.

4.4% ▲ +40.9%

Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 2021: 4.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.5% ▼ -6.1%

Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 2021: 1.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Yabulu, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Car (passenger) is next at 7%.

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 Yabulu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321113/yabulu/topic/transport