Prince Henry Heights · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Prince Henry Heights

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

Not a single home in Prince Henry Heights is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars defines the area, where almost every household owns at least two vehicles and public transport is completely absent.

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📍 Prince Henry Heights, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have two cars, with 53.4% of households fitting this profile. The proportion of homes with no vehicle is 0.0%, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Prince Henry Heights, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 1 vehicle is next at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 67.1% of people being the car driver. No one commutes via public transport, and 13.8% work from home, which is about the same as the state figure.

13.8% ▲ +153.7%

Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.5%
  • 2016: 8.8%
  • 2021: 13.8%

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: 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 Prince Henry Heights, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero routes and stops. This puts the area far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is a slow process for those without a car, with a 37-minute walk to the nearest stop and an 87-minute drive time to the city.

37

Higher than 72% 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.

87

Higher than 61% 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)).
  • 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 Prince Henry Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32365/prince-henry-heights/topic/transport