1.5% ▼ -60.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bloomsbury · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bloomsbury
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained dominant in Bloomsbury, where only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, reflecting a strong reliance on private transport in this rural area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 34.4% having two and 21% having three. Very few homes lack a vehicle, which is much lower than the Queensland average of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bloomsbury, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to work, while 15.8% work from home, a figure slightly above the Queensland average. Only 1.3% use public transport, which is a little below the national figure.
15.8% ▲ +28.4%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Bloomsbury. This means access is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.
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 Bloomsbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30289/bloomsbury/topic/transport