2.5% ▼ -49.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Eli Waters · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Eli Waters
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the primary way people get around Eli Waters, with very few homes lacking a vehicle. This reliance on driving is clear across the suburb, where almost no one uses public transport and far fewer people work from home compared to the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Eli Waters has a car, with 47.2% owning one and 36.5% owning two. Only 2.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Eli Waters, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive themselves to work, as only 5.5% work from home—a figure far below the 21% national average. Just 0.7% of the workforce uses public transport, which is a little below the national figure.
5.5% ▲ +63.4%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +8.9%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Eli Waters. This leaves the suburb with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland average of 720.7.
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 Eli Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30960/eli-waters/topic/transport