5.3% ▼ -38.4%
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bulimba · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Bulimba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Bulimba than in the rest of the state, with 25.2% of the workforce doing so. This shift is part of a broader trend toward flexible work and a higher reliance on public transport compared to the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, and only 5.3% of households have no motor vehicle. This is about the same as the Queensland figure and represents a 3.3 point drop since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bulimba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (40%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in Queensland, and 6.6% of residents use public transport, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%. The number of people commuting via transit has risen 3.7 points since 2011.
25.2% ▲ +338.2%
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.6% ▲ +129.6%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is well accessible, with 45 routes and 264 stops. This provides 990.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is well above the Queensland figure of 720.7, with buses making up 95.1% of the services.
264
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.58
Higher than 50% 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).
990.2
Higher than 50% 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).
45
Higher than 81% of state electorate 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bulimba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30008/bulimba/topic/transport