Lamington · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lamington

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

Working from home is far more common in Lamington than in most other areas, with 34.5% of the workforce doing so. This creates a transport landscape where cars are essential and public options are almost non-existent. The area is highly reliant on private vehicles for all daily travel.

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📍 Lamington, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in Lamington are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. Most households are well equipped, with 40.5% owning two vehicles and 18.9% having four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Lamington, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Half of the workforce drives to work, while 34.5% work from home, which is far above the national figure of 21%. Nobody in the area uses public transport to get to their job.

34.5%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 23.6%
  • 2021: 34.5%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Lamington, Car (driver) is the majority at 56%; Worked at home is next at 38%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is entirely absent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This means no one can reach the area via transit, leaving the number of weekly departures far below the Queensland average.

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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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes typically 76 minutes to drive from Lamington to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.

76

Higher than 54% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Lamington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31628/lamington/topic/transport