Josephville · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Josephville

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

About 30% of households in Josephville have four or more motor vehicles, making car ownership a central part of local life. Every single home in the area has at least one vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for households without a car.

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📍 Josephville, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here owns a vehicle, a rate well below the Queensland and Australian figures. Most households have multiple cars, with 30.2% owning four or more.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 5.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Josephville splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (32%) and 1 vehicle (28%), with 2 vehicles at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Half of the workforce drive themselves to work and 20.9% work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.

20.9% ▲ +22.8%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.0%
  • 2016: 17.4%
  • 2021: 20.9%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 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 Josephville, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 27%.

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 available. This is far below the Queensland figures for both the number of stops and weekly departures 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).

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes typically 59 minutes to drive to the city, a time that is around the middle for similar areas.

59

Lower than 57% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Josephville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31453/josephville/topic/transport