Toolakea · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Toolakea

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

Every single home in Toolakea now has a motor vehicle, a huge shift from 2011 when over half of households lacked one. This makes the area far more reliant on cars than the state and national averages. Most residents use their own cars for work or operate from home.

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📍 Toolakea, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Zero homes are without a vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. About 37% of households own two cars, while 12.2% have four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 55.6%
  • 2016: 7.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Toolakea splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 4 or more at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here uses public transport to get to work, a trend that has fallen 10 points since 2011. While 82.4% of workers drive, 10.6% now work from home, though this is far below the national figure of 21%.

10.6% ▲ —

Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 10.6%

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: 10.3%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Toolakea, Car (driver) is the majority at 89%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

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 Toolakea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322123/toolakea/topic/transport