10.9% ▼ -28.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Childers · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Childers
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on private cars is common in Childers, though a surprising number of households get by without one. While most people drive to work, nearly 10% use public transport, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 11% of homes in Childers have no motor vehicle, a rate well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. For those who do own cars, 43% have one vehicle and 32% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Childers, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and No vehicle (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to get to work, but 9.8% of people use public transport, which is well above the Australian average of 3.1%. Only 6.8% of people work from home, a figure far below the national average of 21%.
6.8% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
9.8% ▲ +49.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 9.8%
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.
Despite the use of public transport for commuting, there are no public transport stops or routes within the area. This leaves Childers far below the Queensland average for service access.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Childers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30600/childers/topic/transport