0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Palmyra · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Palmyra
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Palmyra than in the rest of Queensland, with not a single home lacking a motor vehicle. This total reliance on private transport is mirrored in the way people travel for work and the complete absence of local public transit options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Palmyra has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% national figure for homes without a car. Most households are heavily equipped, with about 28% owning four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Palmyra, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 4 or more (28%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost everyone who works here relies on a car, as 68.3% drive themselves and 6.5% travel as passengers. Only 12.9% work from home, which is well below the Australian average of 21%.
12.9% ▲ +118.8%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 12.9%
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: 1.8%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, leaving it far below the Queensland average for service access. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Getting to the nearest transport stop is a challenge here, with a typical walk taking 73 minutes. This is among the highest times recorded for areas of this type.
73
Higher than 93% 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 Palmyra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32266/palmyra/topic/transport