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Samford Village · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Samford Village

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

Nearly 30% of working residents in Samford Village work from home, a figure far above the state and national averages. This high rate of home-based work helps define the local transport landscape, where the vast majority of people rely on private cars or their own living rooms to get through the workday.

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📍 Samford Village, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 38.7% owning two vehicles. While 5.2% of households have no motor vehicle, this is higher than most similar areas and has risen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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5.2% ▲ —

Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Samford Village splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

2 vehicles 38.7% 1 vehicle 35.4% 3 vehicles 14.1% 4 or more 7.2% No vehicle 5.2%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, reaching 29.5% and rising 24 points since 2011. Driving is the most typical way to get to work at 43.8%, while public transport use is much higher than in most similar areas but still sits a little below the national figure at 1.2%.

People working from home

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29.5% ▲ +440.2%

Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

Commuting by public transport

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1.2% ▲ —

Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.

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 Samford Village, Car (driver) is the majority at 54%; Worked at home is next at 36%.

Car (driver) 43.8% Worked at home 29.5% Walked 4.8% Car (passenger) 1.8% Train 1.2%

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 Samford Village [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321090/samford-village/topic/transport