0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blue Mountain Heights · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Blue Mountain Heights
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single household in Blue Mountain Heights owns a car, making it much more vehicle-dependent than most similar areas. While the area has very few public transport users, more people have shifted toward working from home over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Queensland and national averages. Most households are well-equipped, with 48.6% owning two vehicles and 24.6% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Blue Mountain Heights, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.5% of people as the driver. No one uses public transport to commute, while 13.0% of residents now work from home, an increase of 8.8 percentage points since 2011.
13.0% ▲ +206.3%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Blue Mountain Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321017/blue-mountain-heights/topic/transport