Mount Kelly · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Kelly

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

Nearly 65% of working residents in Mount Kelly drive themselves to work. This is a highly vehicle-reliant area where every single home has at least one motor vehicle, far outstripping the national trend.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, as 0% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. More than half of all households own three or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 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 Mount Kelly, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 33%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, though 17.0% work from home, which is a little above the Queensland figure. Only 1.7% use public transport, a rate that is a little below the national average.

17.0% ▲ +75.1%

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.7%
  • 2016: 13.2%
  • 2021: 17.0%

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

1.7% ▲ +28.4%

Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 1.7%

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 Mount Kelly, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Mount Kelly, with zero stops and zero routes. This lack of access is far below the state average for Queensland.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mount Kelly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31978/mount-kelly/topic/transport