2.7% ▲ +16.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barlows Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barlows Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the main way people get around Barlows Hill, where almost every home owns a vehicle. This reliance on cars is clear because public transport is virtually non-existent in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 2.7% having none. Most households are well equipped, as 45.2% own two vehicles and 15% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barlows Hill, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 61.1% of people as the driver. Only 7% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
7.0% ▲ +74.6%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -27.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 means weekly departures per person are far below the Queensland figure.
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 Barlows Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30163/barlows-hill/topic/transport