3.1% ▼ -38.8%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forrest Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Forrest Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap in public transport options separates Forrest Beach from the rest of the state. While almost every home here relies on a car, only 1.1% of workers use public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 38.5% owning two and 12.2% owning three. Only 3.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Forrest Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 71.5% of residents. Very few people work from home at 4.0%, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages.
4.0% ▲ +82.6%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -11.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.1%
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.
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 means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Forrest Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31072/forrest-beach/topic/transport