5.4% ▼ -44.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boonah · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Boonah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A stark lack of public transport defines Boonah, where there are no public transport stops or routes available. This makes the area heavily dependent on private cars, as only 8.7% of workers operate from home, which is far below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 39.4% owning one vehicle and 36.5% owning two. Only 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Boonah splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 61% of people commuting as the driver. Only 0.3% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
8.7% ▲ +85.1%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▲ —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This results in far fewer departures per 1,000 people than the Queensland average and means no one is reachable by transit within 45 minutes.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes typically 57 minutes to drive from the area to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for similar places.
57
Lower than 58% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Boonah
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Boonah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30321/boonah/topic/transport