1.0% ▲ —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kensington Grove · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kensington Grove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1% of homes in Kensington Grove lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. This reliance on cars is the defining feature of the area's transport landscape. Most households own multiple vehicles to manage the 55-minute drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are essential here, with 43.4% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.8% owning four or more. This high level of ownership explains why the number of car-free homes is much lower than across Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kensington Grove, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost everyone relies on cars to get to work, as 69.9% drive and no one uses public transport. Working from home is less common here than in most areas, with only 9.9% doing so, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
9.9% ▲ +159.0%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 9.9%
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: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in this area, with no stops or routes available. This means no residents can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, and the number of stops is 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 55 minutes to drive to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.
55
Lower than 59% 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 Kensington Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31508/kensington-grove/topic/transport