3.6% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Caloundra West · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Caloundra West
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.6% of workers in Caloundra West use public transport to get to work, showing a heavy reliance on private cars. Most households own at least one vehicle, and very few people work from home compared to the national figure. This creates a transport landscape where the car is the primary way people move around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 41.9% of homes having two vehicles. Only 3.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Caloundra West splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 68.1% of people being the driver. This is consistent with a low number of people working from home, at 10.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.8% ▲ +244.6%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -41.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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.
The area has 20 public transport stops, which is more than about 88% of similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland figure.
20
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.75
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).
331.9
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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
A typical resident spends 17 minutes walking to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 63 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this level.
17
Higher than 56% 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.
63
Lower than 54% 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)).
- 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 Caloundra West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30493/caloundra-west/topic/transport