Census 2011: Journey to Work, Queensland Key points In the week prior to the 2011 Census: • of the 1,775,100 people who recorded journeys to work that started and ended in a Queensland region, the majority (94.9%) worked in their region of residence; and • 22,802 (1.1%) employed residents of Queensland worked interstate, with New South Wales the primary work destination, followed by Western Australia. 1. Journey to work, Queensland Introduction The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census of Population and Housing includes questions on workplace address and method of travel to work. Combining this information with place of usual residence for employed people gives statistics on journey to work patterns. This bulletin focuses on journeys to work for all employed people aged 15 years and over within and between SA4 regions of Queensland, as well as featuring journey to work patterns in Greater Brisbane 1, South East Queensland (SEQ) and Townsville SA4. Interstate flows and the industry and occupation characteristics of selected Queensland regions are also included. Method of travel to work is also provided for journeys taken and reported on the day of the Census (9 August 2011). Major journey to work patterns There were 2,039,275 people living in Queensland recorded as being employed in the week prior to the 2011 Census. Of this group, 87.0% or 1,775,100 people recorded journeys to work that started and ended in a Queensland region (Table 1). The majority (94.9%) of these people worked in their region of residence. Gold Coast SA4 had the highest proportion of residents working in other Queensland regions (14.4%), followed by Sunshine Coast SA4 (10.8%) and Toowoomba SA4 (10.6%). Queensland - Outback SA4 had the highest proportion of workers living elsewhere (14.3%) followed by Darling Downs - Maranoa SA4 (12.0%) and Toowoomba SA4 (10.6%). The remaining 13.0% (264,175) included people who worked interstate, lived in Queensland but did not have a usual residential address, lived or worked in Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld) SA4, who did not state or only partially stated a place of work, or did not have a fixed work address. Table 1: Journey to work (a) summary, employed usual residents, Queensland regions (b) , 2011 Region of residence Region of employment Commuted Commuted to Commuted to Commuted from Region (b) – % – – % – – % – from different – % – same region different region same region region Greater Brisbane 1 879,078 97.4 23,293 2.6 879,078 95.6 40,677 4.4 Cairns 84,877 96.7 2,933 3.3 84,877 98.1 1,625 1.9 Darling Downs - Maranoa 44,987 91.6 4,116 8.4 44,987 88.0 6,106 12.0 Fitzroy 84,501 97.0 2,586 3.0 84,501 94.4 5,049 5.6 Gold Coast 168,142 85.6 28,352 14.4 168,142 92.8 12,996 7.2 Mackay 70,841 97.9 1,533 2.1 70,841 91.7 6,415 8.3 Queensland - Outback 30,931 95.8 1,349 4.2 30,931 85.7 5,156 14.3 Sunshine Coast 102,179 89.2 12,311 10.8 102,179 96.3 3,874 3.7 Toowoomba 49,524 89.4 5,844 10.6 49,524 89.4 5,865 10.6 Townsville 87,239 95.8 3,857 4.2 87,239 98.7 1,176 1.3 Wide Bay 81,736 94.4 4,891 5.6 81,736 97.5 2,126 2.5 Total commuting within Total commuting between Total journeys in Queensland regions: 1,775,100 region: 1,684,035 (94.9%) regions: 91,065 (5.1%) (100.0%) (a) Includes journeys that started and ended in the Queensland regions listed, and persons who worked from home. Table excludes persons who did not work in the week prior to the 2011 Census, who gave a place of work outside of Queensland, who worked or lived in ‘Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld)’ or who did not state, or only partially stated a workplace address, who had no fixed workplace address, or no usual residential address. Proportions calculated as a percentage of the total employed persons living in the region (origin) or working in the region (destination) respectively. (b) All regions listed are Statistical Area Level 4, except Greater Brisbane (refer to footnote 1 below). Note: For the region Greater Brisbane, Census respondents coded to the category ‘Place of Work Capital city undefined (Greater Brisbane)’ are included in the count of persons commuting to the same region . Source: ABS 2011 Census of Population and Housing 1 Includes the SA4s of Brisbane - East, Brisbane - North, Brisbane - South, Brisbane - West, Brisbane Inner City, Ipswich, Logan - Beaudesert, Moreton Bay - North, Moreton Bay - South SA4s. Census 2011: Journey to work, Queensland 1 South East Queensland There were 1,383,386 employed people Table 2: Journey to work summary, SEQ, 2011 2 living in SEQ . Half of these people Region of employment (694,947) 3 lived and worked in the same SA4 Same SEQ Australia Region of residence Brisbane 4 Other (d) Total within SEQ. There were a further 29,920 region (a) balance (b) balance (c) SEQ residents (2.2%) who worked outside the region. This included 17,162 people – persons – (1.2%) working interstate, and 12,758 (0.9%) Brisbane 4 462,045 50,285 7,841 58,748 578,919 working in the rest of Queensland. Gold Coast 15,917 168,142 9,621 8,978 35,027 237,685 Ipswich 36,116 63,272 4,441 3,627 15,247 122,703 Brisbane 4 is a major work destination in SEQ. More than half (53.8% or 636,007) of Logan – Beaudesert 46,151 50,775 13,946 1,742 19,845 132,459 all people both living and working in SEQ Moreton Bay – North 24,982 40,599 9,572 1,653 13,053 89,859 (1,182,742) worked in Brisbane. Outside of Moreton Bay – South 45,609 23,339 6,830 1,149 9,761 86,688 Brisbane, Moreton Bay - South SA4 had highest percentage of employed residents Sunshine Coast 5,187 102,179 3,734 4,930 19,043 135,073 working in Brisbane (52.6%) (Table 2). – % – Brisbane 4 79.8 8.7 1.4 10.1 100.0 While those SA4s located the furthest from Gold Coast 6.7 70.7 4.0 3.8 14.7 100.0 Brisbane had the smallest percentage of residents working in Brisbane, there were Ipswich 29.4 51.6 3.6 3.0 12.4 100.0 24,982 Moreton Bay - North residents, Logan – Beaudesert 34.8 38.3 10.5 1.3 15.0 100.0 15,917 Gold Coast residents and 5,187 Moreton Bay – North 27.8 45.2 10.7 1.8 14.5 100.0 Sunshine Coast residents working in Brisbane the week before the 2011 Census. Moreton Bay – South 52.6 26.9 7.9 1.3 11.3 100.0 Sunshine Coast 3.8 75.6 2.8 3.6 14.1 100.0 - - Moreton Bay North and Logan Beaudesert (a) Where the region of employment is the same region as the region of residence. have relatively high proportions of employed (b) SEQ excluding Brisbane and the same region. residents working in other (neighboring) (c) Other Queensland SA4s and interstate. SA4s in SEQ (10.7% and 10.5% (d) Includes regions of employment coded to 'State/Territory Undefined (Qld)', 'Capital City respectively). Compared with other regions, Undefined (Greater Brisbane)', 'Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld)', 'No Fixed Address Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast SA4s had a (Qld)' and not stated. relatively high proportion of employed Source: ABS 2011 Census of Population and Housing residents working in areas outside of SEQ (3.8% and 3.6% respectively) (See the Journey to work table on the Government Statistician website for further details). Townsville SA4 Table 3: Region of employment, Townsville SA4 Townsville SA4 comprises Charters Towers - Ayr - (a) Ingham SA3 and Townsville SA3. residents , 2011 persons – % – There were 105,990 employed people residing in Townsville SA4 (Table 3) at the time of the 2011 Lived and worked in Townsville SA4 87,239 82.3 Census. Of these residents, more than four out of five Lived and worked in the same SA3 (a) 86,167 81.3 (81.3%) lived and worked in the same SA3 within Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham SA3 15,247 14.4 Townsville SA4. Almost 71,000 lived and worked in Townsville SA3, and 15,247 lived and worked in Townsville SA3 70,920 66.9 (a) Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham. Lived in the area and worked in a different SA3 1,072 1.0 Lived in the area, but worked outside Townsville SA4 16,364 15.4 There were 791 (0.7%) Townsville SA4 residents Rest of Qld 3,817 3.6 working interstate in the week prior to the Census. A further 3.6% worked somewhere else in the rest of Interstate 791 0.7 Queensland, including 1.5% (1,633) in Queensland - Other (b) 11,756 11.1 Outback SA4 and 0.9% (981) in Mackay SA4 (Figure Work location not stated 2,388 2.3 1). Total employed residents 105,990 100.0 In the week prior to the 2011 Census, there were (a) Charters Towers - Ayr - Ingham and Townsville SA3s. 88,947 people whose place of work was Townsville (b) Includes place of work responses coded to 'State/Territory Undefined (Qld)', SA4. Almost all those employed in Townsville SA4 'Capital City Undefined (Greater Brisbane)', 'Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld)', and 'No Fixed Address (Qld)'.Coast SA4s.