Seaforth · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Seaforth

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

Not a single home in Seaforth is without a motor vehicle, making car reliance the defining feature of daily travel here. This total shift from 12% without a car in 2011 shows how essential private transport has become for the local population.

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📍 Seaforth, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles, and 13% have three. The 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% and the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 12.0%
  • 2016: 48.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Seaforth, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (13%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 70.1% of people as drivers and another 6.7% as passengers. Very few people work from home at 1.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

1.8% ▼ -85.1%

Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 12.3%
  • 2016: 1.6%
  • 2021: 1.8%

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

3.0% ▲ +28.0%

Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.0%

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 Seaforth, Car (driver) is the majority at 86%; Car (passenger) is next at 8%.

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 Seaforth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321092/seaforth/topic/transport