6.7% ▼ -19.2%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brisbane · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Brisbane
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Brisbane than in most similar areas, with 17.7% of workers doing so. While car travel remains the main way to get around, the city shows a higher reliance on public transport compared to the state and national figures.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.7% of Brisbane homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas. Most households own one or two cars, though the share without a vehicle fell by 1.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Brisbane splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose sharply to 17.7% since 2011, a figure well above the Queensland average. Public transport use is also a little above the state and national figures, though it fell from 10.0% to 5.0% over the last decade.
17.7% ▲ +371.4%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.0% ▼ -50.4%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 5.0%
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/ucl/UCL301001/brisbane/topic/transport