Fraser Island · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Fraser Island

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

Higher rates of public transport use than most similar areas define the travel patterns of Fraser Island (L). While 11.5% of workers use public transport, the area is almost entirely devoid of people working from home.

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📍 Fraser Island, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 5.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Queensland figure. This is a little below the national rate of 7.4%, and the proportion of car-less homes has fallen by 4.4 percentage points since 2011.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Fraser Island, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by No vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is the most common way to get to work for 44.2% of residents, while 11.5% use the bus—a figure well above the national average of 3.1%. In contrast, no one works from home, which is far below the 21% national figure.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.0%
  • 2016: 2.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

11.5% ▲ —

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 11.5%

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 Fraser Island, Walked is the majority at 55%; Car (driver) is next at 31%.

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 Fraser Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322047/fraser-island/topic/transport