8.9% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rolleston · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rolleston
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A total lack of public transport services sets Rolleston apart from the rest of the state. This reliance on private travel is reflected in the way people get to work and the fact that nearly 9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40% owning two vehicles and 13.3% having four or more. However, 8.9% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little above the national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rolleston, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 4 or more (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly 20% of the workforce works from home, which is well above the state figure. No one uses public transport to get to work, while 59.1% of workers drive themselves.
19.7% ▲ +39.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 19.7%
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 routes or stops in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a result that is far below the Queensland average.
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).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Rolleston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32462/rolleston/topic/transport