3.6% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boreen Point · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Boreen Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Boreen Point stands out among similar areas for its total lack of public transport and high reliance on private cars. This is a remote-feeling pocket where no one uses public transport to get to work, and most households own at least one vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 3.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households keep one or two cars, with 39.4% having one and 38.2% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Boreen Point splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 21.3% of workers operate from home, a rate well above the Queensland figure of 14.1%.
21.3% ▲ +35.1%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 21.3%
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.
Public transport is non-existent in Boreen Point, with zero stops and routes available. This puts the area 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city takes a long time, with a drive time of 102 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
102
Higher than 70% 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 Boreen Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30335/boreen-point/topic/transport