0.7% ▲ +8.9%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yaroomba · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Yaroomba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher rates of working from home than most similar areas define Yaroomba, where 20.1% of the workforce does so. It is a place where almost every household owns a car and the vast majority of residents rely on driving to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 48.1% of homes having two vehicles and only 0.7% without any. This lack of carless homes is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yaroomba, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 20.1% of people work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. Only 0.8% of residents use public transport to get to work, which is a little below the national figure.
20.1% ▲ +104.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▲ +60.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
The area has five public transport stops, all for buses. While the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is much higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the Queensland figure.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.45
Higher than 67% 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).
547.7
Higher than 79% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
A typical trip to the city takes 79 minutes by car. For those using public transport, the walk to the nearest stop takes about 7 minutes.
7
Lower than 61% 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.
79
Higher than 56% 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 Yaroomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33206/yaroomba/topic/transport