1.4% ▼ -39.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Summerholm · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Summerholm
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes in Summerholm go without a car compared to the national figure, with only 1.4% of households lacking a vehicle. This creates a strong reliance on private transport in a place where public options are almost non-existent. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around and reach work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common here, as 36.9% of homes have two vehicles and 22.5% have three. Very few households lack a car, which is well below the 7.4% national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Summerholm, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 68.9% as the driver. Around 12.5% work from home, which is a little below the Queensland figure and well below the Australian average of 21%.
12.5% ▲ +95.5%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.0% ▲ —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 virtually non-existent, with zero routes or stops serving the area. This is far below the state average for stops and weekly departures.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The area is remote from urban hubs, with a typical drive time to the city of 57 minutes. Getting to a transport stop is difficult, with a walk time of 86 minutes, among the highest for similar areas.
86
Higher than 99% 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.
57
Lower than 58% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Summerholm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32688/summerholm/topic/transport