4.9% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rathdowney · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rathdowney
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Rathdowney relies on a car to get around. With no public transport available, the typical home has at least one vehicle, and over half have two or more.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Queensland figure. Most households are well-equipped, with 37.4% owning two vehicles and 14.6% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rathdowney splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.8% of residents. While 16.5% work from home—slightly above the Queensland figure—no one uses public transport to commute.
16.5% ▲ +49.6%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 16.5%
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: 1.7%
- 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, which is far below the Queensland average. Consequently, no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Rathdowney is a distant commute from the city, with a typical drive time of 81 minutes.
81
Higher than 57% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Rathdowney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32394/rathdowney/topic/transport