Willowvale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Willowvale

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

A 110-minute drive to the city makes Willowvale a very remote place to get around. Reliance on cars is total here, with every single household owning at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Willowvale, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost 40% of homes have two vehicles, and another 37% have four or more. This means no household in the area is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national averages.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Willowvale splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 4 or more (34%), with 3 vehicles at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, though 23.3% work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure. No one in the area uses public transport to get to their job.

23.3% ▼ -23.3%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 30.4%
  • 2016: 16.3%
  • 2021: 23.3%

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 Willowvale, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

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 leaves Willowvale far below the state average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 110 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

110

Higher than 75% 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 Willowvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33081/willowvale/topic/transport