4.9% ▼ -20.9%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Burleigh · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Burleigh
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people use public transport in Burleigh than in most similar areas, with only 1.3% of workers commuting this way. While most homes have at least one car, the area has a very high number of weekly public transport departures compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have one or two cars, and only 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle. This figure is about the same as the Queensland average and has fallen by 1.3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Burleigh splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to travel for work, with 62.5% of people as the driver. Working from home has risen sharply to 15.1% since 2011, while public transport use has fallen to 1.3%, which is a little below the national figure.
15.1% ▲ +528.9%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -71.4%
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 1.3%
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.
Bus services dominate the local network, as 99.4% of public transport use is by bus. Despite having fewer stops per person than most areas, the number of weekly departures is far above the Queensland figure.
139
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.76
Lower than 85% 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).
1,384.1
Higher than 65% 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).
28
Higher than 54% 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 Burleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30012/burleigh/topic/transport