5.8% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Southside · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Southside
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 73% of workers in Southside drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. While the area has many transport stops compared to similar places, very few people actually use public transit for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 5.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This lack of a car is much more common here than in most other similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Southside splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work at 0.7%, and only 4.8% work from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
4.8% ▲ +17.7%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -33.1%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
With 31 stops and two routes, Southside has far more transport stops per person than the Queensland average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.
31
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.
4.91
Higher than 77% 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).
142.1
Higher than 72% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 much longer to drive to the city from here than from most other similar areas, taking about 111 minutes. The walk to the nearest stop takes around 8 minutes.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
111
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Southside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32612/southside/topic/transport