4.8% ▼ -55.2%
Lower than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Southern Downs · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Southern Downs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Southern Downs than in the rest of the state. Almost everyone relies on their own car to get around, with very few households lacking a motor vehicle. This dependence on private cars is reinforced by a total lack of public transport services in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 37% actually own two vehicles. The number of households without a motor vehicle has fallen to 4.8%, which is a little below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Southern Downs splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.3% of workers use public transport, a figure that has fallen 14 points since 2011. Driving is the dominant choice, while 10.3% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.3% ▲ +187.1%
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -97.8%
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 is virtually non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This means there are no weekly departures per 1,000 people, placing the area far below the Queensland average.
0
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 Southern Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30077/southern-downs/topic/transport