1.8% ▼ -35.5%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tamborine Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tamborine Mountain
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Tamborine Mountain than across Queensland, with only 1.8% of households without a vehicle. This high reliance on cars is reflected in the lack of local public transport and the 52-minute drive to the city. It is a place where most people depend on their own wheels to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 40.3% of households own two vehicles. This means Tamborine Mountain has far fewer carless homes than the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tamborine Mountain, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 20.7% of people doing so, which is well above the Queensland figure. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.4%.
20.7% ▲ +77.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is almost non-existent in the area, with no recorded routes or stops. This puts the local service far below the Queensland average.
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.
The drive time to the city is 52 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.
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 Tamborine Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32732/tamborine-mountain/topic/transport