0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sarabah · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sarabah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 41% of people in Sarabah work from home, a figure far above the national average. This remote way of working is a key feature of the area, which lacks public transport and relies heavily on private cars for travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Sarabah has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for homes without one. Many households have multiple cars, with 22.2% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sarabah splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 4 or more (32%), with 1 vehicle at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 41.7%, far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. For those who do travel, 61.1% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.
41.7% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 41.7%
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 Sarabah, leaving it far below 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 typical drive time to the city is 78 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
78
Higher than 55% 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 Sarabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32517/sarabah/topic/transport