Hill · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Hill

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

About the same as similar areas, Hill relies heavily on private cars for getting around. Most homes have at least one vehicle, and there is almost no public transport available in this sparsely populated region. This makes the car the primary way people move throughout the landscape.

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📍 Hill, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 38.1% having two and 13.7% having three. Only 5.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the Queensland average and has barely changed since 2011.

5.1% ▼ -10.3%

Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 5.7%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 5.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 61.5% of people using a car as the driver. Only 9.6% of residents work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

9.6% ▲ +6.5%

Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 9.0%
  • 2016: 9.6%
  • 2021: 9.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

2.2% ▼ -26.3%

Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 2.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Hill, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is virtually non-existent here, with no stops or routes available. This puts Hill far below the Queensland average for transport access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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Lower than 99% 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).

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Lower than 99% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30034/hill/topic/transport