Orion · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Orion

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

Nearly half of all working residents in Orion work from home, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a lifestyle where private transport is essential and public options are non-existent. Almost every household owns multiple vehicles to get around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Orion has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures for carless households. Most families have several cars, with 72.4% of homes owning three or more vehicles.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Orion, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 4 or more (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is the most common way people earn a living here at 48.3%, far above the 21% national figure. For those who do travel, 32.8% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.

48.3% —

Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 32.1%
  • 2021: 48.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Orion, Worked at home is the majority at 60%; Car (driver) is next at 40%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is completely absent in Orion, with no stops or routes available. This lack of access is far below the Queensland average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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 Orion [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32233/orion/topic/transport