Sugarloaf · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Sugarloaf

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

Far fewer people live without a car in Sugarloaf than across the rest of Australia. Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. This heavy reliance on cars is matched by a very low number of people working from home.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have multiple cars, with 37.8% owning two vehicles and 13.3% owning four or more. This means the 0.0% of homes without a vehicle is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

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 Sugarloaf, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 66.7% of residents. Only 8.8% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.

8.8%

Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 8.8%

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

3.4%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.4%

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 Sugarloaf, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

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. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Sugarloaf [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32686/sugarloaf/topic/transport