Caboolture vs Caloundra

Caboolture and Caloundra are two nearby Queensland areas with different levels of accessibility. Caloundra is more walkable, with 52.9% of homes in a 15-minute-city walkshed and 42.5% of homes within a 15-minute walk of health services, compared to 42.8% and 29.2% in Caboolture. Caboolture has a far larger Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, with 9,912 people compared to 3,509 in Caloundra. This group also faces more challenges in Caboolture, where the unemployment rate is 13.2%, well higher than the 7.8% seen in Caloundra.

Both areas have similar levels of First Nations language use, with about 3.6% of people speaking such a language, a figure that sits near the national average. While they are both considered somewhat walkable, Caloundra generally has more homes within walking distance of schools, groceries, and parks. This gap in accessibility has grown over time, with Caloundra's advantage in 15-minute-city walksheds increasing by 10 percentage points since the last census.