8.8% ▼ -25.2%
Higher than 78% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Leichhardt · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Leichhardt
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of workers in Leichhardt drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way people get around. While most households own at least one vehicle, 8.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39% of homes have one vehicle and 36% have two. The proportion of households without a car is much higher than most areas, though this fell 3.0 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Leichhardt splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose to 11.4% since 2016, though this remains well below the national figure of 21.0%. Very few people use public transport to commute, at just 1.2%, which is a little below the state and national averages.
11.4% —
Lower than 67% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% —
Lower than 72% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to buses, with only 2.25 stops per 1,000 people, which is well below the Queensland average. This is consistent with the area having some of the smallest numbers of transport routes and stops overall.
396
Lower than 90% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.25
Lower than 91% 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).
588.2
Lower than 72% 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).
22
Lower than 90% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Leichhardt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED318/leichhardt/topic/transport