1.8% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rocky Point · Suburb / Locality
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained central to daily life in Rocky Point, where very few households go without a vehicle. Most residents rely on private transport, as the area has no public transport routes or stops of its own.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here owns a car, with 46.1% having two vehicles. Only 1.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
1.8% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Rocky Point, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers drive to work, while only 2.5% work from home, a figure far below the 21% national average. Around 2.6% of people use public transport to commute, which is about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures.
2.5% —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is nonexistent in the area, with zero routes and no stops. This means Rocky Point falls far below the Queensland figure for both 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Rocky Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32458/rocky-point/topic/transport