0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Fordsdale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Fordsdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Fordsdale now has at least one motor vehicle, marking a shift toward total car reliance. This rural area is entirely dependent on private transport, with no one using public transit or working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 36.4% of homes having two vehicles and 13.6% owning four or more. This means the share of homes without a car is 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fordsdale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the only way people get to work, with 63.6% as the driver. No one in the area works from home, a figure far below the 21% national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops 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.
The typical drive time to the city is 83 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
83
Higher than 58% 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 Fordsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31059/fordsdale/topic/transport