5.2% ▼ -18.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Miles · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Miles
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance remains the dominant way to get around Miles, where 65.9% of workers drive themselves to work. While most homes own at least one vehicle, about 5.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Typical households here often have multiple cars, with 32.6% owning two and 11.5% owning three. However, the 5.2% of homes without a vehicle is a higher figure than in most comparable places.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Miles, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, at just 6.7%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Only 1% of people use public transport to get to work, while 8.1% walk.
6.7% ▼ -7.0%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -45.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 the area. This leaves the town with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average of 721.
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 Miles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31833/miles/topic/transport