0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
West Woombye · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in West Woombye
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars have become the absolute necessity for getting around West Woombye, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is clear in the daily commute and the complete lack of local public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in West Woombye has a motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and national figures. Most households own multiple cars, with about 65% of homes owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In West Woombye, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 65.8% of workers as the driver. This is consistent with the fact that 0% of people use public transport and only 12.7% work from home, a figure well below the national average.
12.7% ▲ +70.1%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 12.7%
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: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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.
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 there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around without a car is very difficult here, as the walk to the nearest stop takes about 83 minutes. The drive time to the city is 73 minutes.
83
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
73
Higher than 52% 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 West Woombye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33044/west-woombye/topic/transport