Kingaroy · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kingaroy

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

A massive gap in public transport access separates Kingaroy from the rest of the state, where there are no recorded transport stops or routes. This makes the area heavily reliant on cars, though 7.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.

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📍 Kingaroy, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 39% of households have one vehicle and 34.8% have two. While most residents rely on cars, 7.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure slightly above the Queensland average of 5.8%.

7.2% ▼ -9.7%

Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.0%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 7.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Kingaroy splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is rare here; only 4% of people do so, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Most people commute by car, with 69.3% driving themselves and only 1.3% using a bus.

4.0% ▲ +36.8%

Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.9%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 4.0%

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

1.3% ▼ -37.1%

Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 1.3%

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 Kingaroy, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Car (passenger) is next at 9%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 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).

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Kingaroy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31542/kingaroy/topic/transport