Deepwater · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Deepwater

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

More people use public transport to get to work in Deepwater than in most similar areas. While the typical home has one or two cars, about 21.7% of the workforce now operates from home, which is well above the Queensland figure.

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📍 Deepwater, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Deepwater has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the state and national rates for households without a car, with about 30% of homes owning two vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Deepwater, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (28%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport use for work is well above the national and state figures at 6.7%. This sits alongside a high number of people working from home, which is well above the Queensland average.

21.7% ▲ +32.3%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 16.4%
  • 2016: 22.2%
  • 2021: 21.7%

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

6.7% ▲ +280.0%

Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.8%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 6.7%

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 Deepwater, Car (driver) is the majority at 53%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

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 means the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland average.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Deepwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30823/deepwater/topic/transport