0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brookstead · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Brookstead
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Brookstead has at least one motor vehicle, making the area entirely dependent on cars. This is far more common than across Queensland or Australia, where many households have no vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 18.3% of homes owning four or more vehicles. About 31.7% of households have one car, while 28.3% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Brookstead splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (31%) and 2 vehicles (27%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 65.1% of residents. This helps explain why 21.7% work from home, a figure well above the Queensland average of 14.1%.
21.7% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 21.7%
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 nonexistent in this area, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the state average for transport access.
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.
The area is very remote, with a typical drive time to the city of 125 minutes. This is much higher than most other areas.
125
Higher than 83% 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).
More for Brookstead
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Brookstead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30389/brookstead/topic/transport