Grasstree Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Grasstree Beach

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

Almost every single home in Grasstree Beach has a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the state and national averages. Residents rely heavily on private transport for daily life, with no public transport options available in the area.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area owns at least one vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Most homes have two cars, while about 18% have three.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 2016: 1.1%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Grasstree Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 71.6% of residents acting as the driver. Only 8% of people work from home, a figure far below the national average of 21%.

8.0% ▲ +211.9%

Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 8.0%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 2.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Grasstree Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 84%; Worked at home is next at 9%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Grasstree Beach. This lack of access is far below the Queensland average, meaning no one in the area uses public transit to get to work.

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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 Grasstree Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31231/grasstree-beach/topic/transport