Bouldercombe · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bouldercombe

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Nearly 70% of working residents in Bouldercombe drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on private cars. Most households here own multiple vehicles, and very few people use public transport or work from home.

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📍 Bouldercombe, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 45.5% of homes having two vehicles and 19.3% owning three. Only 1.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

1.6% ▲ +50.4%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.1%
  • 2016: 2.2%
  • 2021: 1.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Bouldercombe, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to get to work, while only 6.2% of people work from home, a figure far below the Australian average. Just 1.1% of the workforce use public transport, which is a little below the state and national figures.

6.2% ▲ +28.0%

Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.8%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 6.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.1% ▲ +14.7%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 2021: 1.1%

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.

How people get to work

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In Bouldercombe, Car (driver) is the majority at 86%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is virtually non-existent in the area, with zero stops and no routes. This leaves the local transit access far below the Queensland average.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bouldercombe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30339/bouldercombe/topic/transport