0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Towen Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Towen Mountain
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of workers in Towen Mountain drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. The area is almost entirely dependent on private vehicles for travel, with no one using public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Towen Mountain has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and national figures. Most households have multiple cars, with 34.7% owning two and 31.6% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Towen Mountain splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 1 vehicle at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 20.9% of people work from home, a figure that is well above the Queensland average. No one uses public transport to get to work, and the most common way to commute is driving as the sole occupant of a car.
20.9% ▲ +70.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, which leaves it far below the Queensland average for transit access. Consequently, there are no weekly departures for residents to use.
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.
It takes 74 minutes to drive to the city, and walking to the nearest transport stop takes 31 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
31
Higher than 67% 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.
74
Higher than 53% 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 Towen Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32863/towen-mountain/topic/transport