Placid Hills · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Placid Hills

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

A huge drop in the number of households without cars is the biggest shift for Placid Hills since 2011. Almost every home now owns at least one vehicle, making the area far more car-dependent than the national average. This reliance is clear in the way people travel for work, with nearly 80% driving themselves.

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📍 Placid Hills, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 2.7% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Queensland and Australian averages. Most households have multiple cars, with 43.6% owning two and 21.8% having four or more.

2.7% ▼ -96.6%

Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 79.1%
  • 2016: 12.8%
  • 2021: 2.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Placid Hills, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, while 0.0% of residents use public transport. Those working from home make up 4.5% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

4.5% ▲ —

Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 4.5%

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: 4.3%
  • 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 Placid Hills, Car (driver) is the majority at 89%; Car (passenger) is next at 6%.

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 Placid Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322098/placid-hills/topic/transport