0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Charlestown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Charlestown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops separate Charlestown (Qld) from the wider state and national averages. This is a heavily car-dependent area where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Vehicle ownership is very high, with 36% of homes owning four or more cars. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Charlestown splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 1 vehicle (28%), with 4 or more at 28%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 57.1% of residents. Another 17.1% work from home, a figure well above the Queensland average, while no one uses public transport to commute.
17.1% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure.
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 Charlestown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30581/charlestown/topic/transport