Bonney · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Bonney

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

More people live without a car in Bonney than in most similar areas, with 6.9% of homes having no motor vehicle. While public transport access is better than the state average, most residents still rely on private cars to get around.

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📍 Bonney, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 6.9% of households in Bonney do not own a motor vehicle, a figure that has risen 2.6 percentage points since 2011. Nearly half of all homes have just one vehicle, while 33.9% have two.

6.9% ▲ +62.1%

Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 4.3%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 6.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Bonney, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (9%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 10.7% of workers doing so. Most people drive themselves to work, accounting for 62.5% of commutes, while public transport use sits at 2.6%.

10.7% ▲ +128.7%

Lower than 61% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 10.7%

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

2.6% ▲ +44.0%

Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 1.8%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 2.6%

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 Bonney, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport access is far above the Queensland average, with 1,296.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people. The network consists of 32 routes and 212 stops, with buses making up 84.8% of the available services.

3.75

Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

1,296.4

Higher than 62% of state electorate 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bonney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30005/bonney/topic/transport