14.7% ▲ +24.6%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Burke · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Burke
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people live without a car in Burke than in most similar areas. This is a stark contrast for a region where nearly 15% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well above the Queensland average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
While 14.7% of homes have no vehicle, many others have multiple cars, with 16.4% of households owning four or more. The number of car-less homes has risen 2.9 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Burke splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 4 or more at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
A third of workers drive themselves, but 26.3% walk to work. Those working from home rose to 16.0% since 2011, while public transport use fell sharply to just 2.6%.
16.0% ▲ +103.6%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% ▼ -74.8%
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves the region with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure.
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) 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).
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Burke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA31950/burke/topic/transport