0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Colo Heights · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Colo Heights
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Colo Heights owns a car, making it a place where residents rely almost entirely on private vehicles. This trend is underscored by the fact that not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 31.4% of homes owning four or more vehicles. This is well below the national and state figures for homes with no car, which sit at 7.4% and 9.2% respectively.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Colo Heights splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (33%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
More than half of workers drive themselves to work, and 17.8% work from home. This is well below the national figure for working from home, and no one in the area commutes by public transport.
17.8% ▲ +74.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 is practically non-existent in Colo Heights, with no stops or routes available. This means far fewer services and lower accessibility than the state average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Reaching the city is a significant journey, with a drive time of 218 minutes. This is among the highest drive times for areas at this level.
218
Higher than 99% 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 Colo Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10984/colo-heights/topic/transport