Ottaba · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ottaba

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

Almost no one uses public transport or works from home in Ottaba, making it one of the least connected areas for these options. The community relies almost entirely on cars for travel, which is consistent with its remote position and long travel times to the city.

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📍 Ottaba, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 31%, ahead of 2 vehicles (31%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Ottaba splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (50%) and 2 vehicles (50%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Over half of the workforce drives themselves to work, while 0.0% use public transport. This is well below the national figure of 3.1%, and far fewer people work from home here than in the rest of Australia.

How people get to work

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In Ottaba, Car (driver) is the majority at 100%.

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. This means nobody can reach the location via transit within 45 minutes, a figure far below the Queensland average.

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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).

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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.

Getting into the city takes a long time, with the typical drive being 84 minutes. This travel time is higher than most similar areas.

84

Higher 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 Ottaba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32238/ottaba/topic/transport