Adare · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Adare

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

Nearly 40% of homes in Adare have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people get around. The area is almost entirely dependent on private transport, with no one using public transit to get to work and very few people working from home compared to the national figure.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every household owns a car, with only 1% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% and the Australian figure of 7.4%.

1.0% ▼ -50.3%

Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.9%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 2021: 1.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Adare, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The vast majority of workers drive, while 10.3% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. No one in Adare uses public transport to get to work.

10.3% ▲ +11.9%

Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.2%
  • 2016: 3.9%
  • 2021: 10.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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.

How people get to work

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In Adare, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts the local access far below the Queensland average.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city from Adare is 66 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

66

Lower than 52% of suburb / locality 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 Adare [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30009/adare/topic/transport