Rosevale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Rosevale

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

Nearly 37% of Rosevale homes have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people get around. This is a rural area where every single household owns at least one vehicle, and a significant number of residents work from home.

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📍 Rosevale, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in Rosevale is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Queensland and Australian averages. Most households have multiple cars, with 22.4% owning three and 14.9% owning four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.9%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Rosevale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 1 vehicle (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 28% of people doing so, which is far above the state figure. Because there is no public transport use, over half of those who leave for work do so as the driver of a car.

28.0% ▲ +25.7%

Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 22.3%
  • 2016: 8.0%
  • 2021: 28.0%

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: 2.2%
  • 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 Rosevale, Car (driver) is the majority at 62%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent in Rosevale, with no stops or routes serving the area. This means zero people can reach other locations via transit within 45 minutes, and the number of stops is far below the state average.

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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).

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.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 67 minutes to drive from Rosevale to the city, which is around the middle for areas of this type.

67

Lower than 52% 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 Rosevale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32474/rosevale/topic/transport