1.5% ▼ -76.2%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Elliott Heads · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Elliott Heads
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people rely on public transport or work from home in Elliott Heads compared to the rest of the country. Most residents depend on their own cars, with only 1.5% of homes lacking a motor vehicle—a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. This high reliance on private transport defines how people move around the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, with 40.2% owning two vehicles. This high level of car ownership means Elliott Heads has much fewer car-free homes than the Queensland average of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Elliott Heads splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 75.4% of people drive themselves. Very few people work from home at 4.3%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
4.3% ▼ -2.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -19.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
While there are more bus stops per 1,000 people here than in most areas, the actual number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland average. All public transport in the area is provided by buses.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.31
Higher than 75% 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).
51.7
Higher than 63% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
The typical resident needs to walk about 9 minutes to reach their nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
9
Lower than 56% 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.
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 Elliott Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30969/elliott-heads/topic/transport