8.0% ▼ -36.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Caboolture · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Caboolture
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A heavy reliance on cars shapes daily life in Caboolture, where 63.9% of workers drive themselves to work. While the area has some of the most public transport stops and routes for its size, very few people actually use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
More homes here go without a car than in most areas, with 8% of households having no motor vehicle. This is a little above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Caboolture splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here, at just 8.5%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Only 2% of workers use public transport, a rate slightly below the national average.
8.5% ▲ +154.4%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▼ -62.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 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.
Caboolture has a high number of transport stops and 53 different routes, making it one of the largest for these counts. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland figure.
80
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.71
Higher than 68% 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).
335.3
Higher than 75% 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).
53
Higher than 88% 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.
It takes typically 43 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than most similar areas. A walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 15 minutes, placing the area around the middle for its level.
15
Higher than 53% 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.
43
Lower than 66% 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 Caboolture [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30471/caboolture/topic/transport