1.7% ▼ -29.4%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Calliope · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Calliope
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Calliope than in the rest of Australia, with only 1.7% of homes lacking a vehicle. This heavy reliance on private transport is reflected in the local commute, where the vast majority of residents drive to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles and 19.2% have three, meaning car ownership is much higher than the Queensland and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Calliope, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 71.3% as the sole driver. Very few people work from home at 4.1%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
4.1% ▲ +53.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -86.5%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 virtually non-existent here, with zero routes and stops. This leaves the area far below the Queensland average for service access.
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 Calliope [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30491/calliope/topic/transport