10.3% ▼ -28.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Taringa · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Taringa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people now work from home in Taringa than in most other areas, with 27.1% of the workforce doing so. This shift is part of a transport landscape where many residents choose to live without a car, and public transport options are exceptionally plentiful.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 10.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Just under half of all households own one vehicle, while 30.8% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Taringa, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 50%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and No vehicle (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest at this level at 10.0%, well above the national figure of 3.1%. This is consistent with the high number of people working from home, which at 27.1% is far above the state average.
27.1% ▲ +619.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
10.0% ▼ -55.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
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.
Access to transport is excellent, with 7.9 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the Queensland figure. The area has 69 routes and stops, providing a very high number of weekly departures compared to the state average.
69
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.90
Higher than 86% 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).
2,125.5
Higher than 92% 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).
69
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
107,907
Higher than 90% 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).
255,927
Higher than 88% 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).
27
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Taringa is very well connected, with a typical drive time to the city of only 9 minutes. It is also much easier to access transit here than in most areas, with a typical walk to the nearest stop taking only one minute.
1
Lower 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.
9
Lower than 96% 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 Taringa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32751/taringa/topic/transport