Lytton · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Lytton

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

More than half of workers in Lytton rely on driving a car to get to work. The area has seen a significant shift in how people travel, with working from home jumping from 6% to 19.1% since 2011. While car use is dominant, public transport use has also risen and is now higher than the state and national figures.

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📍 Lytton, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes in Lytton have one or two motor vehicles, and 39.7% of households have two. About 6.1% of homes have no vehicle, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is slightly lower than the Australian average.

6.1% ▲ +52.6%

Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 4.0%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 6.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Lytton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 19.1% of people doing so, which is well above the Queensland figure. Public transport use for commuting has also grown to 4.2%, a level higher than most similar areas.

19.1% ▲ +215.6%

Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 6.0%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 19.1%

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

4.2% ▲ +359.4%

Higher than 75% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 4.2%

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 Lytton, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

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

Lytton has 254 public transport stops across 28 routes, with buses making up 85.2% of the services. While the number of stops per 1,000 people is well above the state average, the number of weekly departures is a little below the Queensland figure.

4.67

Higher than 52% 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).

596.0

Lower than 66% 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 Lytton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30045/lytton/topic/transport