5.2% ▼ -28.5%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ferny Grove · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Ferny Grove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly a quarter of workers in Ferny Grove now work from home, a figure that has jumped 17 percentage points since 2011. This shift toward flexible work is a defining feature of the local transport landscape. Most households rely on cars, though the area has better access to transit stops than most other parts of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is common, with 77% of homes owning either one or two vehicles. Only 5.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the Queensland average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ferny Grove, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much more common here than in most areas, with 23.1% of residents doing so. Public transport use for commuting is also a little above the national figure at 5.2%, which is a rise of 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
23.1% ▲ +302.3%
Higher than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.2% ▲ +166.2%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 5.2%
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.
Ferny Grove has 5.08 transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Queensland figure. While there are 29 different routes, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is a little below the state average.
266
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.
5.08
Higher than 60% 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).
637.8
Lower 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).
29
Higher than 57% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ferny Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30026/ferny-grove/topic/transport