1.8% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pimpama · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pimpama
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Pimpama than in the state or national average, with only 1.8% of homes lacking a vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars is seen in the daily commute, where most residents drive to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 48.1% owning two and 13.9% owning three. Only 1.8% of households have no vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pimpama, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, used by 68.2% of residents. Very few people work from home at 10.4%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%.
10.4% ▲ +259.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -61.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
The area has 77 stops and 20 routes, making it one of the largest for public transport at this level. Most of this service is provided by buses, which make up 94.4% of the modes available.
77
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.13
Higher than 70% 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).
638.9
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).
20
Higher than 86% 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 34 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than most similar areas. The walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 8 minutes.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
34
Lower than 71% 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 Pimpama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32318/pimpama/topic/transport