4.7% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Beaconsfield · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Beaconsfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on private cars remains the dominant way to travel in Beaconsfield, where very few people work from home. This is a car-dependent area, though nearly 40% of households own at least two vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 39.4% owning two. Only 4.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Beaconsfield splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 73.3% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
3.5% ▲ +78.4%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▼ -41.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 provided entirely by buses, with eight stops and two routes serving the area. While this is more than many similar areas, the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland average.
8
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.36
Higher than 63% 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).
111.5
Higher than 70% 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.
Getting to the nearest transport stop is relatively easy, with a typical walking time of 4 minutes, which is lower than most areas.
4
Lower than 71% 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 Beaconsfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30191/beaconsfield/topic/transport