Wallu · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wallu

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

Almost every household in Wallu relies on a car to get around, with not a single home lacking a motor vehicle. This total dependency on private transport is reflected in the long 127-minute drive to the city.

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📍 Wallu, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has at least one vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for carless households. Most residents own two cars, with 34.3% of homes falling into this category.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Wallu splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Car travel dominates the daily routine, as 87.5% of workers either drive or ride in a car. Very few people work from home at 9.4%, a figure far below the national average.

9.4% ▲ +26.6%

Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.4%
  • 2016: 9.4%
  • 2021: 9.4%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Wallu, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Car (passenger) is next at 16%.

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 the local access to services is far below the Queensland average.

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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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city is a significant journey, with a typical drive time of 127 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

127

Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

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 Wallu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32969/wallu/topic/transport