Severnlea · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Severnlea

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

Every single home in Severnlea has at least one motor vehicle, making it much more car-dependent than the state and national averages. This reliance on private cars is reflected in the way people travel, as virtually no one uses public transport to get to work.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 72.6% of homes owning two or three vehicles and another 12.2% having four or more. This explains why 0% of households are without a vehicle, a figure well below the Queensland rate of 5.8%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.2%
  • 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 Severnlea, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 1 vehicle (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, which 60.7% do as the sole driver, while 19% work from home. This working-from-home rate is well above the Queensland figure of 14.1%, but a little below the 21% seen across Australia.

19.0% ▼ -2.0%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 19.4%
  • 2016: 14.6%
  • 2021: 19.0%

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 Severnlea, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

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, leaving residents with 0.0 weekly departures per 1,000 people. This is far below the Queensland average of 720.7 departures.

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Severnlea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32542/severnlea/topic/transport