0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Perwillowen · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Perwillowen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Perwillowen lacks a motor vehicle, making it far more reliant on cars than the national average. This dependence is clear in the daily routine, where almost everyone relies on a car to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with over half of homes having three or more vehicles. This high level of ownership means the area is well below the state and national figures for homes without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Perwillowen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (29%), with 1 vehicle at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.9% of residents, while 12.1% work from home. This is a little below the state figure for working from home, and no one uses public transport to commute.
12.1% ▲ +77.4%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 12.1%
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: 2.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is essentially non-existent here, with no stops or routes serving the area. This puts Perwillowen far below the Queensland average for both the number of stops and 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 around on foot is difficult, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 29 minutes. The typical drive time to the city is 75 minutes.
29
Higher than 66% 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.
75
Higher than 53% 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 Perwillowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32301/perwillowen/topic/transport