0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Calen · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Calen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Calen has at least one motor vehicle, making the area almost entirely reliant on cars for daily travel. This total dependence on private transport is mirrored in the way people get to work and the complete absence of local public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 39.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 12.7% owning four or more. This means no one in Calen is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Queensland and Australian averages.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Calen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 68.8% of people as the driver. Working from home is very uncommon at 1.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
1.8% ▼ -80.7%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▼ -38.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 1.8%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This puts Calen far below the Queensland average for transport access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Calen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30484/calen/topic/transport