1.0% ▼ -60.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Seaforth · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Seaforth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap exists between Seaforth and the rest of the country regarding vehicle reliance, with only 1% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most residents depend on cars for daily travel, as very few people work from home here.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every household owns a car, and nearly half have two vehicles. This is a much lower rate of car-free living than in Queensland, where 5.8% of homes have no motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Seaforth, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 70.5% as the driver. Very few residents work from home at 3.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
3.8% ▼ -23.2%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.4% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 3.4%
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. This means access is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Seaforth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32532/seaforth/topic/transport