3.4% ▼ -15.5%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
New Auckland · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in New Auckland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly three quarters of working residents in New Auckland drive themselves to work. The area relies heavily on private cars, with only 0.6% of people using public transport to commute, which is a little below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have more than one car, with 43% owning two vehicles. Only 3.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In New Auckland, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very uncommon here, with only 3.9% doing so, which is far below the national figure of 21%. This is consistent with the high 72.3% of people who commute by driving.
3.9% ▲ +121.4%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -61.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
New Auckland has 20 public transport stops and 2 routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland average.
20
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.80
Higher than 73% 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).
153.8
Higher than 72% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 11 minutes for a resident to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for this level of area.
11
Lower than 53% 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.
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)).
- 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 New Auckland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32126/new-auckland/topic/transport