Bamboo · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bamboo

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

Every single home in Bamboo has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for getting around. This makes the area far less dependent on vehicles than the national figure, as 0% of households are without one. The lack of local transport options means residents almost exclusively use private cars for their daily needs.

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📍 Bamboo, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is high here, with 44.4% of homes owning two vehicles and 24.4% owning three. This is well below the Queensland and Australian figures for homes with no motor vehicle, as no households in Bamboo are without a car.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Bamboo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 51.9% of residents. Only 9.9% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21% and well below the Queensland average.

9.9%

Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 5.3%
  • 2021: 9.9%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Bamboo, Car (driver) is the majority at 84%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Bamboo, leaving the area with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people. This is far below the Queensland figure and explains why 0% of the workforce commutes using public transport.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bamboo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30137/bamboo/topic/transport