Cressbrook · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cressbrook

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

Almost every home in Cressbrook now owns a car, reflecting a strong shift toward private travel since 2011. This is a car-dependent area where a quarter of the workforce now works from home, far exceeding the national figure of 21%.

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📍 Cressbrook, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in Cressbrook are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 71.8% owning either two or three vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Cressbrook splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (30%), with 1 vehicle at 25%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 25% of workers doing so, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

25.0%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 21.3%
  • 2021: 25.0%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Cressbrook, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is virtually non-existent in Cressbrook, with no routes or stops in the area. This means zero people can reach a destination via transit within 45 minutes.

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is challenging without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 85 minutes. It takes 87 minutes to drive to the city, which is higher than most similar areas.

85

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

87

Higher than 61% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Cressbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30748/cressbrook/topic/transport