1.5% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Highfields
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 70% of workers in Highfields drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars. This is a highly vehicle-dependent area where only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with 44.9% having two vehicles and 18.5% having three. This explains why the proportion of homes without a car is much lower than in Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Highfields, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, while only 0.3% of people use public transport. The 9.7% of people who work from home is far below the Australian figure.
9.7% ▲ +93.9%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -47.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Bus services are the only option here, with 54 stops and 6.3 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Queensland average. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure.
54
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.30
Higher than 83% 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).
307.0
Higher than 75% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Residents generally live within a short 5-minute walk to their nearest stop, though the drive time to the city is higher than in most areas.
5
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
96
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31330/highfields/topic/transport