Long Pocket · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Long Pocket

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

A total reliance on private cars defines transport in Long Pocket, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This creates a stark contrast to the rest of the country, as almost every household owns at least two cars to get around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Long Pocket has a motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and national figures. Most households are well-equipped, with 37.7% having two vehicles and another 35.8% owning three.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Long Pocket splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (43%) and 3 vehicles (40%), with 1 vehicle at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 73.7% of residents, while 10.5% work from home. This proportion of home-based workers is far below the national figure and well below the Queensland average.

10.5% ▼ -20.5%

Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.2%
  • 2016: 5.3%
  • 2021: 10.5%

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

3.9% ▲ +98.7%

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.9%

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 Long Pocket, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Long Pocket. This lack of access is far below the Queensland average, and there are zero weekly departures for the area.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Long Pocket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31684/long-pocket/topic/transport