1.4% ▼ -14.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Steiglitz · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Steiglitz
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.4% of Steiglitz homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. This makes the area far more dependent on private cars than the rest of Australia, as almost every household owns at least one vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have multiple cars, with 46.4% owning two and 15.6% owning three. Very few homes have no vehicle at all, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Steiglitz, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Private cars are the primary way to get to work, with 71.6% of people driving. Only 9.6% of the workforce works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
9.6% ▲ +120.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -24.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is almost non-existent here, with zero routes and stops in the area. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 36 minutes to drive to the city. However, getting to the nearest public transport stop is a challenge, with a walking time that is among the highest for similar areas.
79
Higher than 96% 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.
36
Lower than 70% 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 Steiglitz [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32659/steiglitz/topic/transport