3.3% ▼ -17.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tallai · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tallai
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 62% of working residents in Tallai drive themselves to work, making cars the dominant way to get around. This is a highly car-reliant area where very few people use public transport, with only 0.5% of workers commuting by bus or train.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 40.8% of homes having two vehicles and 17.3% owning four or more. Only 3.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tallai, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (20%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is popular, with 18.5% of residents doing so, a figure well above the Queensland average. Very few people walk to work (0.7%) or use public transport (0.5%).
18.5% ▲ +107.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -65.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 limited to a single bus route with five stops. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland figure.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.12
Higher than 62% 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).
89.6
Higher than 67% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Getting to the city takes about 52 minutes. Because public transport is scarce, the walk to the nearest stop takes 35 minutes, which is longer than in most similar areas.
35
Higher than 71% 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.
52
Lower than 61% 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 Tallai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32724/tallai/topic/transport