6.2% ▼ -15.4%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Roma · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Roma
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way of getting around in Roma, where the vast majority of residents rely on cars for their daily needs. Most households own at least one vehicle, and very few people use public transport or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. For those who do own cars, 37.8% have one vehicle and 36% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Roma splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers drive, with 71.3% being the driver and 6.1% a passenger. Only 4.2% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.2% ▲ +25.5%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport is virtually non-existent here, with zero routes and zero stops. This is far below the Queensland average and means almost no one uses transit to get to work.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Roma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32464/roma/topic/transport