College View · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in College View

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

About 42% of households in College View have three motor vehicles, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars for daily travel. Every single home in the area owns at least one vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for carless households.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 41.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 16.7% having four or more. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below both the Queensland and Australian averages.

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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College View splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 1 vehicle at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 54.3% of people as drivers and 8.6% as passengers. Nobody uses public transport to commute, and the 11.4% of people working from home is well below the national figure.

11.4%

Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 11.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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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.

How people get to work

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In College View, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is essentially non-existent, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This is far below the Queensland average, and no residents can reach others via transit within 45 minutes.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is slow for those without cars, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 25 minutes, which is longer than in most similar areas. The drive time to the city is 61 minutes.

25

Higher than 63% 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.

61

Lower than 55% 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 College View [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30650/college-view/topic/transport