5.6% ▼ -24.1%
Higher than 51% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Groom · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Groom
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes in Groom are without a car than they were in 2011, reflecting a strong reliance on private vehicles. This is a region where almost everyone depends on driving, with only 0.3% of workers using public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 37.9% having two vehicles and 5.6% having none. This lack of a vehicle is about the same as the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Groom splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69.6% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 7.9%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
7.9% —
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% —
Lower than 98% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to buses, with only 8 routes serving the area. While there are 3.79 stops per 1,000 people, the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure.
610
Lower than 77% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.79
Lower than 74% of federal electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
346.2
Lower than 82% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
8
Lower than 97% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city is a significant journey for residents, with a typical drive time of 107 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.
107
Higher than 91% of federal electorate areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Groom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED314/groom/topic/transport