0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lower Beechmont · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lower Beechmont
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Lower Beechmont lacks a motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life here. This heavy reliance on driving is seen in the fact that nearly 60% of workers commute by car, while public transport use is almost non-existent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 44.1% of homes owning two vehicles and 11.7% having four or more. The 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lower Beechmont, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 19.8% of people work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.5%.
19.8% ▲ +225.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means access to services is far below the state average, with zero weekly 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 57 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
57
Lower than 58% 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 Lower Beechmont [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31689/lower-beechmont/topic/transport