Shirbourne · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Shirbourne

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

More than 85% of homes in Shirbourne have at least three motor vehicles, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. This is a place where every single household owns a vehicle, and very few people use public transport to get around.

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📍 Shirbourne, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in Shirbourne is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are heavily equipped, with 35% owning three vehicles and another 25% owning four or more.

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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 Shirbourne, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 4 or more (29%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the most common way to get to work at 46.4%, though 17.9% of people work from home. This working-from-home rate is well above the Queensland figure, while no one uses public transport to commute.

17.9%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 36.7%
  • 2021: 17.9%

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

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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 Shirbourne, Car (driver) is the majority at 57%; Walked is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Shirbourne. This puts the area 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 Shirbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32555/shirbourne/topic/transport