Flynn · Federal Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Flynn

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

Almost every home in Flynn relies on a car to get around, with only 4% of households having no motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on driving is clear in the daily commute, where working from home and using public transport are both very rare.

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📍 Flynn, Federal Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 38.6% having two vehicles and 15.9% having three. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is 4.0%, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4% and has barely changed since 2011.

4.0% ▼ -8.1%

Lower than 82% of federal electorate areas.

  • 2011: 4.4%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 4.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Flynn, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to get to work, while only 1.5% of people use public transport, a figure that has fallen since 2016. Working from home is also uncommon at 8.3%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

8.3%

Lower than 84% of federal electorate areas.

  • 2016: 6.9%
  • 2021: 8.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.5%

Lower than 66% of federal electorate areas.

  • 2016: 2.5%
  • 2021: 1.5%

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 Flynn, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport options are very limited, with only 190 bus stops and 9 routes serving the area. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 58.0, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.

190

Lower than 96% of federal electorate areas.

Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.

1.20

Lower than 97% of federal electorate areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

58.0

Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.

Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Flynn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED311/flynn/topic/transport