0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Whetstone · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Whetstone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Whetstone has at least one motor vehicle, making a car essential for daily life here. This reliance on private transport is reflected in the fact that no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 41.7% owning two and over 20% having four or more. This is well below the Queensland and Australian figures for homes without any vehicle, which are 5.8% and 7.4% respectively.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Whetstone, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of the country, at 31.7%. While 43.9% of workers drive to their jobs, 17.1% simply walk, which helps explain why 0% of the workforce uses public transport.
31.7% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 31.7%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero routes and zero stops. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Whetstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33058/whetstone/topic/transport