0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Balnagowan · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Balnagowan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Balnagowan has at least one motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life. This is a place where most households own multiple vehicles to get around, and very few people work from home compared to the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 42.7% of homes owning two vehicles and another 19.8% having four or more. This means the 0% of homes without a car is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Balnagowan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most residents drive to work, as 65.6% are drivers. Only 9.8% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
9.8% ▼ -22.7%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This puts the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a transport stop is difficult here, with the walk to the nearest one taking 58 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.
58
Higher than 84% 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.
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 Balnagowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30134/balnagowan/topic/transport