Pine Rivers · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Pine Rivers

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

Far fewer homes without cars are found in Pine Rivers today, with that figure falling by 8.9 percentage points since 2011. This is a place where most households rely heavily on their own vehicles for transport. While car use remains dominant, there has been a big shift toward working from home over the last decade.

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📍 Pine Rivers, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 2.9% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 41.8% owning two vehicles and 11.7% owning four or more.

2.9% ▼ -75.3%

Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 9.6%
  • 2021: 2.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Pine Rivers, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has jumped to 18.4% since 2011, a figure well above the Queensland average of 14.1%. This is a key part of the commute, as only 2.9% of people use public transport to get to work.

18.4% ▲ +369.5%

Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 18.4%

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

2.9% ▼ -3.0%

Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 2.9%

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 Pine Rivers, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is limited here, with weekly departures per 1,000 people at 346.6, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7. This lack of access is reflected in the 2.75 stops per 1,000 people, a rate much lower than most areas.

2.75

Lower than 85% 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).

346.6

Lower than 77% 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 Pine Rivers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30069/pine-rivers/topic/transport