6.5% ▼ -25.8%
Higher than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brisbane · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Brisbane
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A higher proportion of people use public transport to get to work in Brisbane than in the rest of Queensland. While 55% of the workforce still drive themselves, there has been a sharp rise in the number of people working from home. This shift is part of a broader move toward more flexible travel and work habits.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 37.8% having two and 36.4% having one. Only 6.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Brisbane splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has jumped from 3.7% in 2011 to 17.6% in 2021, which is well above the Queensland figure. Public transport use has also climbed to 4.7%, a little above the national average of 3.1%.
17.6% ▲ +369.8%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.7% ▲ +326.8%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 4.7%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3002/brisbane/topic/transport