Willows Gemfields · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Willows Gemfields

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

Every single home in Willows Gemfields has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This is a far cry from 2011, when over half the households had no car. Today, the area is defined by high car ownership and a significant shift toward working from home.

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📍 Willows Gemfields, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home lacks a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. Most households have one or two cars, though 17.8% own four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 57.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Willows Gemfields, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 28.6% of people doing so—a figure far above the Queensland average of 14.1%. Public transport is not used at all, with 52.4% of workers driving to their jobs.

28.6% ▲ —

Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 28.6%

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: 2.1%
  • 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 Willows Gemfields, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 35%.

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 Willows Gemfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322134/willows-gemfields/topic/transport