9.8% ▲ +121.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rubyanna · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rubyanna
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 54-minute walk to the nearest public transport stop makes Rubyanna a place where residents rely heavily on their own cars. This is a car-dependent area where almost 10% of homes have no vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 35.9% owning two and 19.6% owning four or more. However, 9.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, a rate much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rubyanna, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 4 or more (20%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers use a car, as 65.1% drive to work. Very few people work from home at 10.1%, which is far below the national figure, and no one commutes using public transport.
10.1% ▼ -24.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 10.1%
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 the number of weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around without a car is difficult here, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 54 minutes. This is much higher than in most other areas.
54
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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).
More for Rubyanna
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Rubyanna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32488/rubyanna/topic/transport