70.0% ▲ +499.4%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 70.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Iama (Yam) Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Iama (Yam) Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A striking 70% of homes on Iama (Yam) Island have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure. This means most residents rely on other ways to get around, and the island has seen a huge jump in car-free households since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Seven out of ten homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that rose 58 points since 2011. Only 28.6% of households own a single car, and no homes on the island have two or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Iama (Yam) Island, No vehicle is the majority at 71%; 1 vehicle is next at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 53.8% of residents. No one uses public transport or works from home, which is far below the Queensland and national figures.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
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: 2.2%
- 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 Iama (Yam) Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322059/iama-island/topic/transport