11.7% ▼ -20.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Upper Mount Gravatt · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Mount Gravatt
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 4,900 weekly public transport departures per 1,000 people make Upper Mount Gravatt an exceptionally well-connected area. This high level of service helps explain why more people here use public transport for their commute than in most other similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 11.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Most households rely on one or two cars, while 42.1% of homes have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Upper Mount Gravatt, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is used by 8.1% of workers, a rate well above the national figure of 3.1%. While 16.2% of people work from home, this is well below the Australian average of 21.0%.
16.2% ▲ +385.5%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
8.1% ▼ -45.6%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 8.1%
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.
The area has 82 public transport stops and 65 routes, with a stop density far above the state average. All public transport is provided by buses, and the typical trip to the city takes 37 minutes.
82
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.59
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).
4,905.6
Higher 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).
65
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
38,305
Higher than 86% 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).
197,045
Higher than 87% 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).
37
Lower than 86% 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.
It takes only 10 minutes to drive to the city, which is among the lowest times for similar areas. Residents also live very close to transit, with a typical 2-minute walk to the nearest stop.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
10
Lower than 95% 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 Upper Mount Gravatt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32914/upper-mount-gravatt/topic/transport