Thoopara · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Thoopara

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

Almost no one uses public transport to get around Thoopara, where 21.2% of workers operate from home. This reliance on private travel and home-based work reflects a landscape with virtually no transit infrastructure.

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📍 Thoopara, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 40%, ahead of 3 vehicles (40%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Thoopara splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (33%), with 1 vehicle at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly half of workers drive themselves to work, while 21.2% work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, a result well below the national average of 3.1%.

21.2% ▲ +48.5%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.3%
  • 2016: 25.0%
  • 2021: 21.2%

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: 2.5%
  • 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 Thoopara, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

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 weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.

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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).

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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 Thoopara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32811/thoopara/topic/transport