2.6% ▼ -37.5%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alpha · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Alpha
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people now work from home in Alpha than ever before, with 32.1% of the workforce doing so. This is far above the national figure of 21% and highlights a shift in how residents manage their professional lives in this remote area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Alpha has a car, and nearly a quarter of households own four or more vehicles. Only 2.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Alpha splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (30%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 4 or more at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes via public transport, which is a little below the state average. Instead, 38.8% of people drive to work, while 14.5% walk, consistent with the high number of people working from home.
32.1% ▲ +54.8%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 32.1%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in Alpha, with zero routes or stops available. This means there are no weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Alpha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30045/alpha/topic/transport