0.7% ▼ -61.1%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alton Downs · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Alton Downs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential in Alton Downs, where only 0.7% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This reliance on personal transport is a long-standing pattern for the area, which lacks any public transport routes or stops. Most households are well-equipped, with 80.9% owning two or more vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has a car, with 38.1% owning two and 19.6% having four or more. This means far fewer homes are without a vehicle compared to the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Alton Downs, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69.8% of residents as the driver. Very few people work from home at 7.2%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
7.2% ▼ -10.7%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -66.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 community far below the Queensland average for transit access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Alton Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30047/alton-downs/topic/transport