Shell Pocket · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Shell Pocket

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

Every single home in Shell Pocket has at least one motor vehicle, making it more car-reliant than most similar areas. This total dependence on private transport is reflected in the way people travel, with the vast majority driving to work or working from home.

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📍 Shell Pocket, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, as 0.0% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have two vehicles, while 22.2% own four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Shell Pocket, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 21.1% of residents, a figure well above the Queensland average of 14.1%. Other commutes are almost exclusively by car, with 0.0% of people using public transport to get to work.

21.1%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.7%
  • 2021: 21.1%

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.

How people get to work

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In Shell Pocket, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves Shell Pocket far below the Queensland average for service access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Shell Pocket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32551/shell-pocket/topic/transport