Coolabine · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Coolabine

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

Every single home in Coolabine now has at least one motor vehicle, marking a shift toward total car reliance. The area is largely disconnected from public transit, with a high proportion of the workforce now operating from home.

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📍 Coolabine, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, as 0% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Nearly half of all households own two 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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In Coolabine, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (38%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common, with 27.3% of residents doing so, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. No one uses public transport to get to work.

27.3%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 27.3%

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.

How people get to work

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Coolabine splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (42%) and Worked at home (38%), with Walked at 21%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops or routes. This puts the local access far below the Queensland average.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Reaching the city is a significant journey, with the typical drive time taking 105 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

105

Higher than 72% 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 Coolabine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30676/coolabine/topic/transport