0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lakeland · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lakeland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 28.2% of workers in Lakeland use public transport to get to work, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on transit is striking given that every single household in the area owns at least one motor vehicle. The local transport landscape is shaped by this unusual mix of high car ownership and high transit use.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Lakeland is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and national figures. Most households have two cars (35.9%) or one car (33.3%), while 16.7% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lakeland splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Commuting by public transport is far above the national figure of 3.1%, with 28.2% of workers using it. Meanwhile, only 10.3% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian average of 21%.
10.3% ▼ -31.3%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
28.2% ▲ +30.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 28.2%
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.
Despite the high use of public transport to commute, there are no public transport stops or routes within the area. This is far below the Queensland average for stops and departures per 1,000 people.
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lakeland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31623/lakeland/topic/transport