3.6% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 80% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Browns Plains · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Browns Plains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people use public transport to get to work in Browns Plains than they did in 2011. This is a car-reliant area where 68.9% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. Only 3.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least two cars, with 39.5% owning exactly two. The proportion of households without a vehicle has barely changed since 2011 and remains much lower than in most other similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Browns Plains, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting has fallen to 1.9%, which is a little below the national figure. Working from home rose to 8.5% since 2011, though this is still far below the Australian average of 21%.
8.5% ▲ +180.1%
Lower than 80% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▼ -48.9%
Lower than 51% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 1.9%
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.
Bus services are the only form of public transport here. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are 494.5, which is well below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
270
Lower than 51% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.88
Lower than 76% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
494.5
Lower than 60% of sub-region (sa3) 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).
19
Lower than 63% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes a typical resident about 26 minutes to drive to the city. However, walking to the nearest transport stop takes 22 minutes, which is much higher than in most other areas.
22
Higher than 78% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
26
Lower than 53% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Browns Plains
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Browns Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31103/browns-plains/topic/transport