Freshwater Point · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Freshwater Point

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

Nearly 75% of working residents in Freshwater Point drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This is a highly vehicle-reliant area where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in the area has a car, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% of homes without one. Most households are well-equipped, with 45.9% owning two vehicles and 11.5% owning four or more.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Freshwater Point, 2 vehicles is the majority at 51%; 1 vehicle is next at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, and very few work from home at 7.1%, which is far below the 21% national figure. A small number of residents (3.5%) use public transport, a rate about the same as the state and national figures.

7.1% ▲ +38.8%

Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.1%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 7.1%

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

3.5% ▲ —

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.5%

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 Freshwater Point, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; 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 means access to services is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops 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 Freshwater Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31088/freshwater-point/topic/transport