Palm Grove · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Palm Grove

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

A total lack of public transport options separates Palm Grove from the rest of the state. This is a car-dependent area where not a single household is without a motor vehicle. Most residents rely on their own cars or work from home to get around.

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📍 Palm Grove, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Palm Grove has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. About 63% of households own two or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.8%
  • 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 Palm Grove, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%. Instead, 21.7% of people work from home, a figure well above the Queensland average of 14.1%.

21.7% ▲ +82.6%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 20.0%
  • 2021: 21.7%

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

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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 Palm Grove, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 29%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This leaves the area far below the Queensland average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Palm Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32259/palm-grove/topic/transport