16.4% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Burketown · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Burketown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Burketown (L) lack a motor vehicle than in the rest of the country, with 16.4% of households without one. This gap makes the area stand out from both the state and national averages. Most residents rely on a single car or walking to get around the town.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A high 16.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. While this is among the highest rates for similar areas, it has fallen slightly since 2011. About 38% of households have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Burketown splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with No vehicle at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 42.5% of residents, while 5% work from home. Public transport use has dropped to 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
5.0% ▲ —
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 5.0%
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: 3.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Burketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322022/burketown/topic/transport