4.0% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gaven · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Gaven
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 68% of working residents in Gaven drive themselves to work, showing a heavy reliance on cars. This is a place where very few people get around without a vehicle, with only 4% of homes lacking one.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have more than one car, with 40.3% owning two and 15.5% owning three. The number of vehicle-free households is much lower than in most areas and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gaven, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 1% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has fallen since 2011. Meanwhile, 11.1% of the workforce now works from home, which is well below the national figure.
11.1% ▲ +27.7%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -53.4%
Lower than 75% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 options are limited, with 148 stops across the area and weekly departures per person well below the Queensland figure. Buses are the primary service, making up 98.3% of the available routes.
148
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.96
Lower than 82% 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).
519.9
Lower than 69% 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 Gaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30027/gaven/topic/transport