5.7% ▼ -6.3%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alva Beach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Alva Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Alva Beach owns a car, making it more dependent on private vehicles than most similar areas. Very few residents use public transport or work from home, with the vast majority relying on their own cars to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 22.8% of households own three or more. About 5.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is similar to the Queensland figure and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Alva Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, with 82.4% of workers driving. No one in the area uses public transport or works from home, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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 Alva Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322003/alva-beach/topic/transport