4.9% ▲ +56.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Ommaney · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Ommaney
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of workers in Mount Ommaney drive themselves to work, though a strikingly high 26.9% work from home. This reliance on private travel is matched by a strong car culture, with over 95% of households owning at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have two cars, and only 4.9% of households have no motor vehicle. This lack of car ownership is slightly lower than the national figure and about the same as the Queensland average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Ommaney, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of Queensland, at 26.9%. Meanwhile, the 3.0% of people using public transport to get to work is much higher than in most similar areas.
26.9% ▲ +268.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.0% ▼ -65.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 3.0%
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.
The area is well served by buses, with 10 different routes and a number of stops that is larger than about 80% of similar places. This helps explain why weekly departures per 1,000 people are far above the Queensland figure.
8
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.20
Higher than 70% 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).
1,324.0
Higher than 88% 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).
10
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
7,645
Higher than 55% 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).
28,891
Higher 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).
53
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city is relatively quick, with a drive time of just 15 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. Residents also enjoy very easy access to transit, with a walk to the nearest stop taking only 2 minutes.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
15
Lower than 88% 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 Ommaney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32009/mount-ommaney/topic/transport