2.5% ▼ -33.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Birtinya · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Birtinya
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just a three-minute walk to the nearest stop makes Birtinya much more accessible than most similar areas. Most residents rely on cars, though the area has a higher number of public transport stops and routes than most places of its size.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has a car, with only 2.5% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Birtinya, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, while 14.1% work from home, which is about the same as the Queensland average. Very few use public transport to commute, at just 1.5%.
14.1% ▲ +210.2%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -14.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.5%
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.
Buses are the only form of public transport here, with 11 stops serving the area. While this is more than most similar places, the number of weekly departures is well below the state figure.
11
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.51
Higher than 67% 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).
567.4
Higher than 80% 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.
Residents enjoy very quick access to transit with a typical three-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 63 minutes.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
63
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Birtinya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30264/birtinya/topic/transport