0.9% ▼ -75.5%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Laidley Heights · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Laidley Heights
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.9% of homes in Laidley Heights lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes the area highly dependent on cars for daily travel. Most households own multiple vehicles to get around the Lockyer Valley.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has a car, with 42% of households owning two vehicles. This is much lower than most areas, and the proportion of car-free homes has fallen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Laidley Heights, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 67.5% of residents, while 9.9% work from home. Public transport use is almost non-existent at 0.0%, which is well below the Australian figure.
9.9% ▲ +60.0%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 9.9%
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 Laidley Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321065/laidley-heights/topic/transport