0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Charlwood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Charlwood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all homes in Charlwood have two motor vehicles, making cars the dominant way to get around. This is a heavily vehicle-dependent area where every single household owns at least one car, and very few people use public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Charlwood has a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households without one. Most families have multiple cars, with 33.3% owning three vehicles and 9.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Charlwood, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 3 vehicles (32%) and 1 vehicle (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, though 21.1% of residents work from home. This is well above the Queensland figure of 14.1%, while almost nobody uses public transport to commute.
21.1% ▲ +26.1%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops or routes available. This is far below the Queensland average and means no one can reach others via transit within 45 minutes.
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).
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.
The typical drive time from Charlwood to the city is 63 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
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)).
- 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 Charlwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30584/charlwood/topic/transport