4.9% ▼ -33.6%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Baralaba · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Baralaba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Baralaba (L) now work from home than in 2011, as the local transport landscape shifts. While most residents still rely on cars, the town has seen a small but notable increase in people using public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost half of all homes have just one motor vehicle, while 36.3% have two. About 4.9% of households have no vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Baralaba splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 9.3%, though this remains far below the national figure of 21%. Most people drive to work, but 3.1% now use public transport, which is among the highest for areas of this size.
9.3% ▲ +306.2%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.1% ▲ —
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Baralaba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322009/baralaba/topic/transport