Emu Park · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Emu Park

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

Very few people in Emu Park rely on public transport compared to other similar areas. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around, and only 2.1% of workers use public transport for their daily commute.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are common here, with 38.2% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 3.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Queensland figure and well below the national rate.

3.9% ▼ -43.0%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.8%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 3.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Emu Park splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 65.9% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 6.7%, a figure far below the national average.

6.7% ▲ +28.3%

Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.3%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 6.7%

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

2.1% ▲ +82.6%

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.1%
  • 2016: 3.1%
  • 2021: 2.1%

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 Emu Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

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 puts Emu Park far below the Queensland average for both 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).

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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 Emu Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30975/emu-park/topic/transport