0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
The Caves · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in The Caves
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in The Caves has at least one motor vehicle, making car travel essential for daily life. This reliance on private transport is clear, with the vast majority of residents driving themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, and the usual home has two or more vehicles. This is well below the Queensland and national figures for homes without a car, which both sit at 0%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In The Caves, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 71.3% of people. Only 5.4% of residents work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
5.4% ▲ +2.2%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -24.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts the local access far below the Queensland average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in The Caves [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32785/the-caves/topic/transport