4.6% ▼ -41.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kingscliff · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kingscliff
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift towards flexible work is evident in Kingscliff, where about 20.5% of people now work from home. While the area is very well served by public transport routes, most residents still rely on their own cars to get around. This creates a transport landscape where digital connectivity is becoming as important as the road network.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 80.7% of homes owning either one or two vehicles. Only 4.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kingscliff splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive to their jobs, with 56.5% as the driver. Very few people use public transport to get to work at 0.6%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
20.5% ▲ +213.6%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -64.7%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Kingscliff has 35 public transport stops and 7 routes, which is more than 91% of similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
35
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.19
Higher than 74% 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).
798.1
Higher than 84% 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).
7
Higher than 86% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 8 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this level.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
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 Kingscliff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12162/kingscliff/topic/transport