Byfield · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Byfield

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

Few areas like Byfield have such a complete reliance on private cars, with every single home owning at least one motor vehicle. This absolute dependence on driving is mirrored in the local commute, where public transport is entirely unused for getting to work.

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📍 Byfield, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in Byfield owns a car, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. About half of all homes have two vehicles, while 13.9% own three.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Byfield, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (13%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 56.8% of people, as no one uses public transport. Working from home is less common here than in the rest of the country, at 11.7%.

11.7% ▼ -22.4%

Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 15.1%
  • 2016: 19.0%
  • 2021: 11.7%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Byfield, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Byfield. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure.

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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 Byfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30467/byfield/topic/transport