0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Karawatha · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Karawatha
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most homes in Karawatha have two cars, with 61% of households owning exactly two vehicles. This is a car-reliant area where not a single household reports having no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. While most people drive, over a fifth of the workforce now works from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Karawatha has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the Queensland and Australian figures, where about 6% to 7% of homes have no car at all.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Karawatha, 2 vehicles is the majority at 60%; 3 vehicles is next at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to get to work, but 22.5% of people work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure. Public transport use is about the same as the state and national average at 3.1%.
22.5% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.1% —
Higher than 86% 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 very limited here, with no recorded stops or routes in the area. This makes the number of stops per 1,000 people far below the Queensland average.
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).
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 29 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than most areas. However, the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 25 minutes, which is higher than most places.
25
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
29
Lower than 75% 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 Karawatha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31488/karawatha/topic/transport