1.7% ▼ -31.2%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pallarenda · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pallarenda
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all homes in Pallarenda have two motor vehicles, making car ownership very common. While there are plenty of bus stops available, the area relies almost entirely on private cars for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 46% of homes have two vehicles, and only 1.7% of households have no motor vehicle. This lack of car-free homes is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pallarenda, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.4% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 9.7%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
9.7% ▲ +143.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport access is strong, with 7 stops and 9 stops per 1,000 people, far above the Queensland figure. All available services are buses, with 622.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people.
7
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.00
Higher than 87% 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).
622.1
Higher than 81% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
It takes a typical resident about 15 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop.
15
Higher than 53% 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 Pallarenda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32256/pallarenda/topic/transport