Lark Hill · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lark Hill

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

Zero homes without a car is a striking feature of Lark Hill, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is much higher than across Queensland and Australia, making cars essential for getting around this area.

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📍 Lark Hill, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here have multiple cars, with 65.2% owning two and 26.1% owning four or more. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures.

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 Lark Hill, 2 vehicles is the majority at 63%; 4 or more is next at 25%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 57.5% of residents, while 17.5% work from home. This working-from-home rate is well above the Queensland figure, but well below the Australian average.

17.5%

Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 17.5%

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 Lark Hill, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is nonexistent here, with no stops or routes available. This means zero people can reach others by transit within 45 minutes, and the number of stops is far below the state 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.

The typical drive time to the city is 55 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

55

Lower than 59% 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 Lark Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31641/lark-hill/topic/transport