0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blue Mountain Heights · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Blue Mountain Heights
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Blue Mountain Heights has a car, making the area heavily dependent on driving for daily life. With no households lacking a vehicle and a very long 93-minute drive to the city, residents rely almost entirely on private transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home here owns at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national rates for carless households. Nearly half of all homes have two cars, and about 25% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Blue Mountain Heights, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 66.5% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 13.0%, and no one uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure.
13.0% ▲ +93.8%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 13.0%
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.
While the area has 4 stops and more routes than most similar places, actual service is low. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure, and all services are buses.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.05
Higher than 74% 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).
202.4
Higher than 73% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
It takes a long time to reach the city, with a typical drive of 93 minutes. A walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 11 minutes, which is typical for areas like this.
11
Lower than 53% 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.
93
Higher than 65% 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 Blue Mountain Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30291/blue-mountain-heights/topic/transport