Clarendon · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Clarendon

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

Almost no one uses public transport in Clarendon, where 28.9% of the workforce now works from home. This reliance on private travel is a defining feature of daily life, as the area has no public transport stops or routes.

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📍 Clarendon, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes are well-equipped for travel, with 90.3% of households owning two or more motor vehicles. Only 5.6% of homes have no vehicle, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.

5.6% ▲ +113.0%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 5.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Clarendon, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 4 or more (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of the state, at 28.9%. This helps explain why 0.0% of the workforce uses public transport, a figure well below the national average.

28.9% ▲ +192.1%

Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.9%
  • 2016: 20.6%
  • 2021: 28.9%

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 Clarendon, Car (driver) is the majority at 63%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is nonexistent in the area, with zero stops and routes available. This is far below the Queensland average for stops and departures per 1,000 people.

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around on foot is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 65 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The typical drive time to the city is 58 minutes.

65

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

58

Lower than 57% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Clarendon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30615/clarendon/topic/transport