4.1% ▼ -38.1%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lowood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lowood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Lowood, where 70.9% of workers drive themselves to work. Very few people rely on public transport, and the area has a much lower rate of working from home than the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has a car, with 37.9% owning two vehicles and 15.7% owning three. Only 4.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lowood splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is uncommon here, at just 7.2%, which is far below the 21% national average. Public transport use for commuting is very low at 0.2%, slightly below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
7.2% ▲ +130.7%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -77.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
While Lowood has more stops and routes than many similar areas, it only has one bus route. Access is limited, with only 0.49 stops per 1,000 people, far below the Queensland figure of 2.99.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.49
Higher than 59% 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).
7.8
Higher than 58% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
14,197
Higher than 66% 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).
14,197
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 50 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than most areas. A walk to the nearest public transport stop typically takes around 17 minutes.
17
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
50
Lower than 62% 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 Lowood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31700/lowood/topic/transport