Watsonville · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Watsonville

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

Over half of the workforce in Watsonville relies on driving themselves to work. This is a car-dependent area where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. With no local public transport options available, residents rely entirely on private cars to get around.

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📍 Watsonville, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here owns a motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% for homes without one. About 63% of households have either one or two cars, while 15.8% own four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.1%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Watsonville splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (30%), with 3 vehicles at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, and only 8.7% of residents work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Most people commute by car, either as a driver or passenger.

8.7% ▲ +16.8%

Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.4%
  • 2016: 16.0%
  • 2021: 8.7%

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: 4.3%
  • 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 Watsonville, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Car (passenger) is next at 20%.

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 number of weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people 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).

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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 Watsonville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33008/watsonville/topic/transport