0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bartle Frere · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bartle Frere
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Bartle Frere is without a motor vehicle, making it far more car-reliant than the typical Australian household. Residents depend heavily on their own transport for daily life, as there are no public transport stops or routes available in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 53.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 13% owning three. This means the proportion of homes without a car is well below both the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bartle Frere, 2 vehicles is the majority at 63%; 3 vehicles is next at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive themselves to work, representing 55.1% of the workforce. While 16.9% of residents work from home—a figure a little above the Queensland average—nobody in the area uses public transport to commute.
16.9% ▲ +50.9%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in Bartle Frere, with zero stops and routes. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bartle Frere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30178/bartle-frere/topic/transport