0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barron · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barron
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car define the transport landscape in Barron, where private vehicle reliance is far higher than the national figure. While public transport infrastructure is surprisingly abundant, the area is largely dependent on cars and home-based work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Barron has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and Australian rates for carless households. Most homes have two vehicles, while 25% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barron, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 4 or more is next at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 21.1% of the workforce doing so—a figure well above the Queensland average. No one uses public transport to get to work, with most people driving or walking.
21.1% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
The area has 44.12 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Queensland figure. All available services are provided by buses, with 4,382.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
44.12
Higher 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).
4,382.4
Higher 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Despite the high number of stops, it takes a typical resident 21 minutes to walk to the nearest one, which is higher than in most areas.
21
Higher than 60% 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 Barron [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30176/barron/topic/transport