Brisbane Grove · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Brisbane Grove

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

Almost every single home in Brisbane Grove owns a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. This total reliance on cars is a key feature of the area, where public transport is completely absent and the typical trip to the city takes over two hours.

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📍 Brisbane Grove, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, as 0.0% of homes have no motor vehicle. More than a third of households own four or more vehicles, and 31.1% have two.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Brisbane Grove splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (33%) and 2 vehicles (31%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 59.2% as the driver and 13.2% as a passenger. Only 10.5% of people work from home, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 31.0%.

10.5% ▲ +40.4%

Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.5%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 10.5%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Brisbane Grove, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Car (passenger) is next at 15%.

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 means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Access to services is limited, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 64 minutes. The drive time to the city is also much higher than most areas, taking 123 minutes.

64

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality 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.

123

Higher than 82% of suburb / locality 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Brisbane Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10574/brisbane-grove/topic/transport