Gracemere · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Gracemere

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

Nearly 70% of workers in Gracemere drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. This dependence is mirrored in the home data, where almost 40% of households own two vehicles.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, and only 3.1% of households have no motor vehicle. This is a little below the Queensland figure of 5.8% and well below the Australian average of 7.4%.

3.1% ▼ -5.8%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.3%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 3.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Gracemere, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the country, at just 3.8%. Very few people use public transport for their commute, with only 1.1% taking a bus.

3.8% ▲ +43.3%

Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 2.3%
  • 2021: 3.8%

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

1.1% ▼ -55.7%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 2.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Gracemere, Car (driver) is the majority at 84%; Car (passenger) 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 the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7 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 Gracemere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31219/gracemere/topic/transport