Rockingham · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Rockingham

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every home in Rockingham has a car, placing it among the most vehicle-dependent areas of its kind. With zero people using public transport to get to work, the community relies almost entirely on private vehicles for travel.

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📍 Rockingham, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Most households have multiple cars, with 42.1% owning two and 28.9% owning three.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Rockingham, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, with 71.4% of workers driving. This reliance on cars is consistent with the fact that only 9.5% of people work from home, a figure far below the national average.

9.5%

Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 17.5%
  • 2021: 9.5%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Rockingham, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Walked is next at 11%.

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 Rockingham far below the Queensland average for transit access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Rockingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32450/rockingham/topic/transport