Laravale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Laravale

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

Every single home in Laravale has a motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This is a significant gap compared to the national and state figures, where around 6 to 7% of households have no vehicle.

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📍 Laravale, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households keep at least two cars, with 52.2% having two and another 26% owning three or more. This high level of vehicle ownership is far above the Queensland and Australian averages.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Laravale, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 1 vehicle is next at 21%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 57.3% of residents, while 14.6% work from home, a figure about the same as the state average. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

14.6% ▼ -20.1%

Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 18.2%
  • 2016: 17.2%
  • 2021: 14.6%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Laravale, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

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, which is far below the Queensland average. Consequently, zero people can reach other areas within 45 minutes using transit.

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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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time from Laravale to the city is 64 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

64

Lower than 53% 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 Laravale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31640/laravale/topic/transport