10.7% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Kelvinhaugh · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kelvinhaugh
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Kelvinhaugh now work from home, with only 10.7% doing so. This reflects a broader reliance on private vehicles in an area where public transport is almost entirely absent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 53%, ahead of 1 vehicle (47%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kelvinhaugh splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 1 vehicle (30%), with 4 or more at 26%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost everyone here drives to work, with 64.3% as the driver. Public transport use is non-existent at 0.0%, and the 10.7% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure.
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 into the city takes a long time, with a drive time of 110 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.
110
Higher 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)).
- 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 Kelvinhaugh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31501/kelvinhaugh/topic/transport