3.1% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Burrum Heads · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Burrum Heads
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no public transport options separate Burrum Heads from the state average, with zero stops serving the area. While most homes rely heavily on cars, only 3.1% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, with 41% owning one and 40.6% owning two. Only 3.1% of homes lack a vehicle, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Burrum Heads splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (41%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as only 0.5% of people use public transport. Working from home is also less common here than elsewhere, at 10.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.8% ▲ +74.2%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -28.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland average 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).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Burrum Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30455/burrum-heads/topic/transport