Coal Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Coal Creek

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Zero homes without a car mark Coal Creek as an area entirely dependent on private transport. Residents here rely heavily on their own vehicles, with almost no use of public transit for daily travel.

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📍 Coal Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with no homes lacking a vehicle, which is well below the national figure. Most households are well-equipped, as 81% have three or more motor vehicles.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Coal Creek splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 1 vehicle at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 20.8% of residents, which is well above the Queensland average. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, and 41.7% drive themselves.

How people get to work

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In Coal Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is effectively non-existent with zero stops or routes serving the area. This leaves the community far below the state average for transit access and weekly departures.

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.

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).

5,052

Lower than 65% 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.

Getting around without a car is very difficult, with an 84-minute walk to the nearest stop, which is among the highest for similar areas. The typical drive to the city takes 79 minutes.

84

Higher than 99% 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.

79

Higher than 56% 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 Coal Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30635/coal-creek/topic/transport