5.2% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Happy Valley · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Happy Valley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership remains the primary way to get around Happy Valley, with nearly half of all homes owning two vehicles. The area has very few options for public transport or working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost half of all households have two motor vehicles. While 5.2% of homes have no vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas, this is about the same as the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Happy Valley, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Reliance on cars is very high, with 71.2% of people driving to work. Very few people work from home at 1.9%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and nobody uses public transport to commute.
1.9% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
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, a figure that is far below the Queensland average.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Happy Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31295/happy-valley/topic/transport