0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Southern Cross · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Southern Cross
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Southern Cross than in the rest of the country. Not a single home in the area lacks a motor vehicle, highlighting a heavy reliance on private transport for daily life.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every household here owns at least one vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for carless homes. Most families have two or three cars, with 16% of homes owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Southern Cross, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive themselves to work, though 4.7% use public transport, which is a little above the national figure. Very few people work from home, at just 8.7%, far below the 21% seen across Australia.
8.7% ▲ +7.2%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.7% ▲ +178.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 leaves the community far below the Queensland average for transport access and weekly departures.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Southern Cross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32608/southern-cross/topic/transport