Miles End · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Miles End

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

Every single home in Miles End has at least one motor vehicle, making car ownership essential for daily life. This high level of vehicle reliance is clear across the area, where almost no one uses public transport to get to work.

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📍 Miles End, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are common here, with 46.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 17.9% having three. The 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Miles End, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 74.4% of people as the driver and 11.3% as a passenger. Only 2.5% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

2.5% ▼ -3.1%

Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 2.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Miles End, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Car (passenger) is next at 13%.

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 explains why the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7 per 1,000 people.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Miles End [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31834/miles-end/topic/transport