Westmar · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Westmar

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

About 26.5% of people in Westmar work from home, a figure far above the Queensland average. This makes it a place where remote work is much more common than in most other areas, while public transport is virtually non-existent.

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📍 Westmar, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 71%, ahead of 3 vehicles (41%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Westmar, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 3 vehicles is next at 30%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Remote work is a major trend here, with 26.5% of people working from home—well above the national figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work, and 44.1% of workers drive themselves.

26.5%

Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 37.5%
  • 2021: 26.5%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Westmar, Car (driver) is the majority at 52%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Westmar. This means the number of weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland average.

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 Westmar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33050/westmar/topic/transport