Topaz · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Topaz

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Every single home in Topaz has at least one motor vehicle, making it far more likely to own a car than the typical Queensland or Australian household. This total reliance on private transport is common for the area's size and location. Most residents either drive to work or operate their business from home.

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📍 Topaz, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Half of all households in Topaz have two vehicles, while 33.8% have one. This high rate of ownership means the 0% of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Topaz, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (9%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 21.3% of people work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure. Because there are no people using trains or buses to get to work, the 56% who drive and 9.3% who walk make up the rest of the commute.

21.3% ▼ -10.7%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 23.9%
  • 2016: 14.8%
  • 2021: 21.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Topaz, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This leaves Topaz with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average.

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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).

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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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Topaz [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32857/topaz/topic/transport