Drinan · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Drinan

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

Every single home in Drinan has at least one motor vehicle, making car ownership universal here. This reliance on cars is a key part of daily life, though a small number of workers still use public transport or work from home.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is extremely high, with 39.2% of homes having two vehicles and 21.6% owning four or more. This means the proportion of homes without a car is 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

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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In Drinan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 4 or more (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, though 17.7% work from home, a figure well above the Queensland average of 14.1%. A small group of residents use public transport, which is a little above the Australian average at 4.8%.

17.7%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 17.7%
  • 2021: 17.7%

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

4.8%

Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 4.8%

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 Drinan, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

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

Despite some people using it for work, there are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves Drinan far below the Queensland average for the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Drinan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30880/drinan/topic/transport