Gowrie Mountain · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Gowrie Mountain

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

Almost 35% of households in Gowrie Mountain have two motor vehicles, making cars the central part of local travel. This is a place where every single home owns at least one vehicle, which is well below the national figure for households without a car.

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📍 Gowrie Mountain, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in the area has a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households that have none. Many families have multiple cars, with 32.1% owning three and 16% owning four or more.

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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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Gowrie Mountain splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (33%), with 4 or more at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the only way people get to work here, with 76.7% driving and 8.3% travelling as passengers. No one in the area works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the national figure of 21% working from home.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 2.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

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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 Gowrie Mountain, Car (driver) is the majority at 90%; Car (passenger) is next at 10%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is completely unavailable in this area, with zero stops and zero routes. This lack of service is far below the Queensland average of about 3 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city is a significant trip, with the drive time taking 93 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

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Higher than 65% 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 Gowrie Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31217/gowrie-mountain/topic/transport