Redlands · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Redlands

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

More than 61% of workers in Redlands drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. This is a region where most homes own multiple vehicles and very few people use public transport for their daily commute.

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📍 Redlands, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 72% of households have one or two cars, while 23% own three or more. Very few homes are without a vehicle, with the figure falling to 4.9% since 2011, which is a little below the national rate.

4.9% ▼ -36.5%

Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 7.8%
  • 2016: 6.7%
  • 2021: 4.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Redlands, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Only 1.6% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has fallen by 8.7 points since 2011. Meanwhile, the number of people working from home rose to 14.2%, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.

14.2% ▲ +328.4%

Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.3%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 14.2%

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

1.6% ▼ -84.9%

Lower than 65% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 10.3%
  • 2016: 10.4%
  • 2021: 1.6%

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 Redlands, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 17%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is limited here, with only 12 routes and 178 stops available, all of which are buses. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is a little below the Queensland figure.

3.30

Lower than 76% 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).

641.0

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Redlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30072/redlands/topic/transport