2.6% ▼ -75.2%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Quilpie · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Quilpie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops are available in Quilpie, making the area entirely dependent on private travel. Almost every household owns a car, and the typical resident relies on a vehicle or walking to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with only 2.6% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure and has fallen sharply since 2011. About 35% of households keep two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Quilpie splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work. Instead, over half drive their own car and 14.1% walk, while 18.0% work from home, which is well above the Queensland average.
18.0% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with no routes, stops, or departures. This is far below the state average and puts Quilpie in a much lower position than most similar areas.
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) 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).
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Quilpie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36150/quilpie/topic/transport