0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Emu Vale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Emu Vale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Emu Vale is without a motor vehicle, making a car essential for daily life here. The area is very remote, with a typical drive time to the city of 153 minutes, which is among the highest for similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal, with 0% of homes lacking a vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. Most households have two vehicles, while 30.4% own three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Emu Vale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
A quarter of people work from home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. No one uses public transport to get to work, as 52.8% drive as the sole occupant of their car.
25.0% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
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 Emu Vale far below the state average for transport access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is dominated by private travel, especially given the long distance to the city, where the drive time is among the highest for similar areas.
153
Higher than 90% 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 Emu Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30976/emu-vale/topic/transport