St Helens Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in St Helens Beach

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

Zero residents use public transport to get to work in St Helens Beach, reflecting a total reliance on private cars. This gap is stark compared to the national figure, as every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in St Helens Beach owns a vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures for carless homes. Most homes have two vehicles, while 11.3% have four or more.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.0%
  • 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 Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 63.6% of people driving and 9.1% travelling as passengers. No one works from home here, a figure far below the national average of 21%.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.5%
  • 2016: 6.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.1%
  • 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 Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Car (passenger) is next at 11%.

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 with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure.

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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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in St Helens Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32642/st-helens-beach/topic/transport