Keppel · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Keppel

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

Almost every home in Keppel owns a car, making it much more vehicle-dependent than most similar areas. Only 3.9% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure.

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📍 Keppel, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least two vehicles, with 41% owning exactly two. The proportion of car-free households has fallen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011, leaving the area with a much lower rate of vehicle-less homes than most other places.

3.9% ▼ -36.4%

Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 6.1%
  • 2016: 5.2%
  • 2021: 3.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Keppel, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 68.4% of residents. Only 6.3% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure, while just 1.3% use public transport for their commute.

6.3% ▲ +76.3%

Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.6%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 6.3%

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

1.3% ▼ -46.0%

Lower than 69% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 2.0%
  • 2021: 1.3%

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 Keppel, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

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 the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is zero, which is far below the Queensland figure.

0.00

Lower than 99% of state electorate 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 state electorate 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Keppel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30041/keppel/topic/transport