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.
Lowmead · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lowmead
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Lowmead stands out among similar areas for its high number of people working from home. This rural community relies almost entirely on private cars, with 31.1% of the workforce operating from home, far exceeding both the state and national figures.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Lowmead has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households without a car. Most residents own one or two vehicles, while 22.4% of homes have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lowmead splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 31.1%, far above the Australian average of 21%. This explains why no one in the area uses public transport to get to work, with 41% of residents driving themselves.
31.1% ▲ +52.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Lowmead. This means the area has far fewer services than the Queensland 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).
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lowmead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31699/lowmead/topic/transport