Somme · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Somme

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

Far fewer homes live without a car in Somme than the national figure, with 0% of households lacking a vehicle. This makes the area much more car-dependent than the rest of Australia, which is consistent with a total lack of public transport options.

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📍 Somme, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Somme has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households that have none. A typical home here has two vehicles.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Somme, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (25%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here at 22.7%, a figure well above the Queensland average. Most others drive, with 68.2% of workers commuting as the driver.

22.7%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 13.0%
  • 2021: 22.7%

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

0.0%

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 Somme, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home 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 Somme. This leaves the area far below the Queensland average for service access, with zero weekly departures 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Somme [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32585/somme/topic/transport