South Johnstone · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in South Johnstone

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

Almost every single worker in South Johnstone relies on a car to get around, as there are no public transport routes serving the area. This total dependence on private vehicles is seen in the 0% of people who use public transit for their daily commute.

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📍 South Johnstone, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have one or two cars, with 38.4% having one and 37.7% having two. Only 5.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.

5.7% ▲ +181.1%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.0%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 5.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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South Johnstone splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 68.9% of people as the driver and 9.4% as passengers. Very few people work from home at 3.9%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.

3.9% ▲ +7.8%

Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.6%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 2021: 3.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 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 South Johnstone, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 11%.

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 means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the Queensland average.

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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in South Johnstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32592/south-johnstone/topic/transport