Wattle Camp · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wattle Camp

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

Far fewer people rely on public transport in Wattle Camp than across Queensland or Australia. Residents are heavily dependent on cars, with almost no one using buses or trains to get around. This reliance is mirrored by the total lack of public transport stops or routes in the area.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have at least one car, and 23.1% of households own three or more vehicles. Very few homes have no motor vehicle, at just 1.6%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

1.6% ▼ -32.9%

Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 1.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Wattle Camp splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The car is the primary way to travel, with 72.3% of workers driving. Only 6.6% of people work from home, a figure far below the Australian average of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport to commute.

6.6% ▲ +34.2%

Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.9%
  • 2016: 5.4%
  • 2021: 6.6%

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 Wattle Camp, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

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. Consequently, there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wattle Camp [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33009/wattle-camp/topic/transport