Stanthorpe · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Stanthorpe

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

Zero people use public transport to get to work in Stanthorpe, highlighting a total reliance on private travel. This lack of transit options is striking compared to the rest of the state and nation. Most residents depend on cars to get around, though a small number of homes have no vehicle at all.

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📍 Stanthorpe, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 8.3% of homes in Stanthorpe have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Queensland figure. Most households have one or two cars, with 42.4% owning just one and 32.7% owning two.

8.3% ▼ -26.3%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.3%
  • 2016: 9.4%
  • 2021: 8.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Stanthorpe, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 65.4% of people driving and 7.1% travelling as passengers. Only 7.1% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.

7.1% ▲ +33.2%

Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.3%
  • 2016: 5.1%
  • 2021: 7.1%

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: 0.4%
  • 2016: 0.3%
  • 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 Stanthorpe, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Car (passenger) is next at 8%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Stanthorpe. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland average of 720.7.

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 Stanthorpe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32655/stanthorpe/topic/transport