0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rossvale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rossvale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Rossvale stands out among similar areas for its total reliance on private cars. Not a single home here is without a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the typical Queensland or Australian household.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Rossvale has at least one vehicle, with 66.7% owning two. This is well below the state and national figures for homes without a car, which are 5.8% and 7.4% respectively.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rossvale, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 1 vehicle is next at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost entirely done by car, as 75.6% of workers drive. Only 7.3% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
7.3% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Rossvale. This means the area has far fewer services than the Queensland average of 2.99 stops 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 115 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
115
Higher than 78% 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)).
- 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 Rossvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32481/rossvale/topic/transport