0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Preston · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Preston
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people rely on public transport in Preston than in the rest of Australia. This is a car-dependent area where every single home has at least one motor vehicle. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, with almost no one using buses or trains.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, as 0.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 44.2% owning two vehicles and 14.2% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Preston, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is dominated by driving, with 67.2% of workers being the driver. This is reflected in the low number of people working from home at 10.0%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
10.0% ▲ +15.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 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. Consequently, weekly departures per 1,000 people are 0.0, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Preston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32363/preston/topic/transport