Windermere · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Windermere

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

A total lack of public transport options defines the way people move in Windermere. Every single household here owns a motor vehicle, making the area almost entirely dependent on cars for travel and work.

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📍 Windermere, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes are well-equipped for travel, with 88.6% of households owning two or more cars. This is far higher than the national figure, and not a single home in the area is without a vehicle.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Windermere, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 67.9% of residents commuting by car as either a driver or passenger. This reliance on cars is reflected in the fact that 0.0% of people use public transport to commute.

11.9%

Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 15.7%
  • 2021: 11.9%

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 Windermere, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Car (passenger) is next at 14%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This leaves Windermere far below the Queensland average for service access, with zero 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.

Getting to a transit stop is a major challenge here, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 47 minutes. This is much higher than in most other similar areas.

47

Higher than 78% 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.

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 Windermere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33093/windermere/topic/transport