5.6% ▼ -31.0%
Higher than 54% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Caboolture · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Caboolture
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 41-minute drive to the city marks Caboolture as an area where residents rely heavily on their own cars. While the number of households without a vehicle has fallen to 5.6%, public transport use remains very low and working from home is far less common than across the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 36% owning two and 9.5% owning four or more. The proportion of households without a motor vehicle is 5.6%, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Caboolture splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 2% of people commute by public transport, a figure that has fallen since 2011. Working from home is also far below the national figure at 9.2%, with 64.2% of workers driving themselves to work.
9.2% ▲ +143.4%
Lower than 77% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▼ -57.4%
Higher than 52% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport access is much lower than most areas, with only 2.19 stops per 1,000 people. Weekly departures are also far below the Queensland figure, and the network is dominated by buses at 93.9%.
175
Lower than 68% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.19
Lower than 84% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
308.5
Lower than 67% of sub-region (sa3) 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).
55
Higher than 84% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around without a car is difficult here, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 31 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
31
Higher than 85% of sub-region (sa3) 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.
41
Higher than 61% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Caboolture [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31302/caboolture/topic/transport