Burrum Heads - East · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Burrum Heads - East

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every home in Burrum Heads - East (L) relies on a car for daily life. Very few households get by without a motor vehicle, with only 2.6% of homes having none at all.

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📍 Burrum Heads - East, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with nearly half of all homes owning two vehicles. This is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% for homes with no car.

2.6% ▲ +71.5%

Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 2.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Burrum Heads - East, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (9%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 65.5% of residents. While 11.5% now work from home—a rise of 5.4 points since 2011—no one here uses public transport to commute.

11.5% ▲ +88.6%

Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.1%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 11.5%

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: 1.7%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Burrum Heads - East, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

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 Burrum Heads - East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321025/burrum-heads-east/topic/transport