0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Silverwood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Silverwood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Three or more cars are found in 32% of households in Silverwood, the most common vehicle count for the area. This high reliance on cars is a necessity for the community, as there is no public transport available and the drive to the city takes a very long 129 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Silverwood has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Silverwood, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 58.6% of people as drivers and 17.2% as passengers. Only 10.3% of people work from home, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%.
10.3% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Public transport is completely absent here, with zero stops or routes. This leaves the area far below the Queensland average for transport access.
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 commute is long and isolated, with the drive time to the city reaching 129 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
129
Higher than 86% 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 Silverwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32571/silverwood/topic/transport