5.7% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sippy Downs · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sippy Downs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower share of people work from home in Sippy Downs compared to the rest of Australia. While the area has an impressive number of bus stops and services, most residents still rely on cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 38% of homes have two motor vehicles, and 5.7% of households have none. This lack of a car is much higher than in most similar areas, though it is about the same as the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sippy Downs splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive themselves to work, with 65.4% using a car as the driver. Only 9.4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure.
9.4% ▲ +134.7%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▲ +33.2%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 mainly provided by six bus routes, with 36 stops serving the area. With 840.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people, service levels are much higher than in most similar areas.
36
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.12
Higher than 70% 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).
840.7
Higher than 85% 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).
6
Higher than 86% 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 to a transit stop is quick, with a typical walk of just 3 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. The drive time to the city is 61 minutes, placing the area around the middle for its level.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
61
Lower 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 Sippy Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32574/sippy-downs/topic/transport