8.1% ▲ +37.6%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 46.6%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Surat · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Surat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single person uses public transport to get to work in Surat, highlighting a total reliance on private travel. Most residents depend on cars, although a notable 8.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has risen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Homes without a car are much more common here than in most similar areas, which is a little above the Queensland figure. About 41% of households have one vehicle, while 35.8% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Surat, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 58.6% of residents, while 19.1% walk. Very few people work from home at 1.9%, which is far below the national figure.
1.9% ▲ —
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Surat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322114/surat/topic/transport