0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Georgetown · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Georgetown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car make Georgetown (L) stand out compared to the national figure. This reliance on private transport is a defining feature of the area, where nearly every household owns at least one vehicle to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures. Most households have two cars, while about 26% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Georgetown, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Private cars are the main way to get to work for 52.2% of residents, and 15.9% walk. Very few people work from home at 7.1%, which is far below the national average, and no one uses public transport.
7.1% ▲ +42.8%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 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 Georgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322048/georgetown/topic/transport