Woodford · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Woodford

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

Almost every household in Woodford relies on a car to get around, with only 3.3% of homes having no motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on driving is clear, as the area has no public transport stops or routes available to residents.

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📍 Woodford, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have at least two cars, with 33.4% owning two and 16.9% owning three. Very few households are without a car, a figure that is well below the Australian average.

3.3% ▼ -29.5%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 3.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Woodford splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 64.2% of residents. Only 10.4% work from home, which is far below the national figure, and just 0.7% use public transport to commute.

10.4% ▲ +99.9%

Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.2%
  • 2016: 4.9%
  • 2021: 10.4%

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

0.7% ▲ +23.4%

Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 2021: 0.7%

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 Woodford, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

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 no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, and the number of stops 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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 68 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

68

Lower than 51% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Woodford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33132/woodford/topic/transport