21.3% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Booval · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Booval
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far higher proportion of homes lack a motor vehicle in Booval than in the rest of the state. While 21.3% of households have no car, the area makes up for this with a public transport network that is much more frequent and accessible than most other places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 21.3% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. For those who do own cars, the most common situation is having just one vehicle, found in 46.1% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Booval, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (23%) and No vehicle (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is used by 5% of workers, which is a little above the national figure of 3.1%. Conversely, working from home is much less common here than elsewhere, at 10.5% compared to 21% across Australia.
10.5% ▲ +194.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.0% ▼ -53.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 5.0%
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.
Booval has 6.24 transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the Queensland figure of 2.99. This high level of access is reflected in the weekly departures, which are well above the state average.
17
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.24
Higher than 82% 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).
1,152.0
Higher than 87% 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).
4
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
27,309
Higher than 80% 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).
52,245
Higher than 66% 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.
Getting to local transport is very easy, with a typical walk to the nearest stop taking only 3 minutes. This is much lower than most areas, and the drive time to the city is also much lower than usual.
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.
28
Lower than 76% 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Booval [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30332/booval/topic/transport