1.3% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sunshine Acres · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sunshine Acres
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Sunshine Acres owns a car, with only 1.3% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, reflecting an area where residents rely heavily on private transport for their daily needs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, as 87.1% of homes have two or more vehicles. This explains why so few households are without a car compared to the rest of Queensland.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sunshine Acres, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 4 or more (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 68.9% as the main driver. Only 9% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
9.0% ▲ +75.3%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -64.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 largely absent in the area, with no routes or stops available. This is far below the Queensland average and helps explain why only 0.6% of workers use public transport to get to work.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Sunshine Acres [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32699/sunshine-acres/topic/transport