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.
Mount Forbes · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Forbes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 32% of homes in Mount Forbes have four or more motor vehicles, making car ownership a central part of life here. This is a highly car-dependent area where virtually every household owns a vehicle, and there is no local public transport available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Mount Forbes has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Many households hold multiple cars, with 29.5% having two and 15.9% having three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Forbes splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (31%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 1 vehicle at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.2% of people as the driver and 6.8% as a passenger. While 17.3% of people work from home—well above the Queensland figure—no one uses public transport to commute.
17.3% ▲ +202.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 17.3%
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: 2.6%
- 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 the area, and zero people can reach others by transit within 45 minutes. This puts the area far below the Queensland figures for stops and departures per person.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
The drive time to the city is 47 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas.
47
Lower than 63% 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 Mount Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31961/mount-forbes/topic/transport