1.9% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Stuart · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Stuart
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift in how people move has seen motor vehicle ownership remain high in Stuart. Almost every home has at least one car, making the area far more reliant on private transport than the national average. Most residents depend on their own cars to get to work and around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.9% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the 5.8% seen across Queensland. Most households own one or two cars, while about 10% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Stuart splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel dominates the morning rush, with 69% of people driving to work. Very few people work from home at 4.8%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%, and no one uses public transport to commute.
4.8% ▲ +17.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 4.8%
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: 2.9%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Stuart has 6.98 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Queensland average. However, the 152.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
11
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.98
Higher than 85% 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).
152.3
Higher than 72% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Walking to the nearest stop takes 50 minutes on average, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
50
Higher 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.
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 Stuart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32683/stuart/topic/transport