1.4% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pelican Waters · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pelican Waters
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Pelican Waters than in most similar areas, with 20.2% of the workforce doing so. This reliance on home-based work and private cars is a defining feature of the area's transport patterns.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households here go without a car, with only 1.4% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pelican Waters, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, and while 20.2% do so, only 0.2% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the national and state figures.
20.2% ▲ +114.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -73.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Bus services are the only option for public transport, but the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland average.
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.
0.95
Higher than 61% 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).
92.1
Higher than 68% 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.
A typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes 9 minutes, while the drive time to the city is around 68 minutes.
9
Lower than 56% 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.
68
Lower than 51% 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)).
- 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 Pelican Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32294/pelican-waters/topic/transport