1.3% ▲ —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kirkwood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kirkwood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained a cornerstone of life in Kirkwood, where only 1.3% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most residents rely on their own transport to get around the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over half of all households have two vehicles, and 13.9% own three. Only 1.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much lower than the 5.8% seen across Queensland.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kirkwood, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 1 vehicle is next at 28%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 74.3% of people driving themselves. Working from home is rare here, at just 4.4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
4.4% ▲ +65.1%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -77.5%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 consists entirely of buses, with two routes and two stops serving the area. While this is more than most similar areas, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.80
Higher than 60% 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).
59.7
Higher than 64% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 19 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
19
Higher than 58% 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.
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 Kirkwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31556/kirkwood/topic/transport