2.3% ▲ +87.1%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Placid Hills · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Placid Hills
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people use public transport to get to work in Placid Hills, making the area entirely dependent on private cars. This reliance is seen in the high number of vehicles per home and the total lack of local transit options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 81.9% owning two or more vehicles. Only 2.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Placid Hills, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 71.9% of people being the driver. This is consistent with the fact that very few people work from home (7.3%), a figure far below the Australian average of 21%.
7.3% ▲ +50.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
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.
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. This puts Placid Hills far below the Queensland average for both stop and departure frequency.
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 without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 38 minutes. The typical drive time to the city is 68 minutes.
38
Higher than 73% 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 Placid Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32338/placid-hills/topic/transport