3.9% ▼ -42.8%
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Chatsworth · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Chatsworth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has jumped by 16 percentage points since 2011 in Chatsworth, reflecting a major shift in how people get to work. Most households here rely on cars, with only 3.9% of homes having no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households go without a car, with only 3.9% of homes owning no vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%. Most homes have at least two vehicles, with 43.6% owning exactly two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Chatsworth, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 53.9% of people drive to work, 22.1% work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure. Public transport use has also risen to 4.5%, a little above the national average.
22.1% ▲ +256.8%
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.5% ▲ +184.1%
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 provided entirely by buses, with 1,362.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far above the state figure. The area has 37 routes and 250 stops across the region.
250
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.83
Higher than 55% 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).
1,362.1
Higher than 64% 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).
37
Higher than 73% 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 Chatsworth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30018/chatsworth/topic/transport