St Helens · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in St Helens

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

Zero homes in St Helens are without a motor vehicle, making it a place where car ownership is essential. Every single household has at least one vehicle to get around, which is well below the national and state figures for homes without a car.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The area is heavily reliant on cars, with 36% of homes having two vehicles and another 18% owning four or more.

0.0%

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 St Helens, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 51% of workers drive and 19.6% work from home, a rate well above the Queensland average.

19.6%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 19.2%
  • 2021: 19.6%

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 St Helens, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with no routes or stops available. This puts the area far below the Queensland average for transport access.

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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 St Helens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32640/st-helens/topic/transport