3.4% ▼ -46.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Smithfield · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Smithfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Better access to public transport than most similar areas defines Smithfield, where there are 22 stops serving the community. While it is well connected, the vast majority of residents still rely on private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Smithfield have at least one car, with 45.8% owning two. Only 3.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Smithfield, 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.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.0% of people. Those who work from home make up 12.2% of the workforce, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 21.0%.
12.2% ▲ +185.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -52.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
The area is very well served by buses, with 9 routes and 906.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people. This level of service is well above the Queensland figure of 720.7.
22
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.30
Higher than 71% 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).
906.4
Higher than 86% 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).
9
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 7 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop, which is around the middle for areas of this size.
7
Lower than 61% 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.
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).
More for Smithfield
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Smithfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32579/smithfield/topic/transport