2.1% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brooloo · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Brooloo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Brooloo owns a car, making it more vehicle-reliant than most similar areas. This is a remote place where the typical drive to the city takes 106 minutes, leaving residents almost entirely dependent on private transport for their daily needs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well equipped, with 39.7% owning two vehicles and 19.9% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Brooloo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody here commutes using public transport. Most people drive themselves to work (68.4%), while 13.8% work from home, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 21.0%.
13.8% ▲ +88.5%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 13.8%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This lack of access means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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 around is dominated by the car, especially since the drive time to the city is 106 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
106
Higher than 73% 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 Brooloo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30391/brooloo/topic/transport