8.9% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Townview · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Townview
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get around Townview, making private cars the only real option for most people. With 8.9% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, a notable number of residents face a challenge in a place with zero public transport routes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 37% owning two vehicles. However, the 8.9% of households without a car is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Townview splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost entirely dependent on cars, as 70.2% of people drive and 8.1% travel as passengers. Working from home is very rare here, at just 1.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
1.4% ▲ +426.4%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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. This leaves the community with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure 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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Townview [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32868/townview/topic/transport