1.0% ▼ -40.3%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Flaxton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Flaxton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes without cars are found in Flaxton than across Queensland or Australia. This is a car-reliant area where the vast majority of residents own a vehicle, and nearly a quarter of workers avoid a commute entirely by working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Flaxton has a motor vehicle, with 42.7% owning two. Only 1% of households are without a car, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Flaxton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, at 23.8%, which is well above the Queensland figure. In contrast, only 0.7% of workers use public transport, a rate a little below the national average.
23.8% ▲ +49.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -71.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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.
Public transport is effectively non-existent in the area. There are no public transport routes or stops, leaving the community far below the state average for transit access.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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.
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 drive time to the city from Flaxton is 80 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
80
Higher than 57% 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)).
- 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 Flaxton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31050/flaxton/topic/transport