0.6% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Westbrook · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Westbrook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes in Westbrook are without a car compared to the rest of the country. Almost every household here owns a vehicle, with the vast majority of residents relying on cars to get around and get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 0.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Car ownership is high here, with 44.8% of homes owning two vehicles and 22% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Westbrook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive, and only 5.6% work from home, a figure far below the 21% national average. Public transport use for commuting is much higher than in similar areas, though it fell to 0.9% in 2021.
5.6% ▲ +81.6%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -69.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
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 Westbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315099/westbrook/topic/transport