3.3% ▼ -43.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coolum Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Coolum Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single home in Coolum Beach relies on a car to get around, with only 3.3% of households without a vehicle. While the area has a good number of bus stops, very few residents actually use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have two cars, while 37.7% have just one. The proportion of households without a vehicle is lower than the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coolum Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work for 59.7% of residents. Working from home is common at 17.5%, which is well above the Queensland figure but well below the national average.
17.5% ▲ +186.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -37.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
Bus services are the only option here, with 27 stops and 3 routes. While these numbers are higher than in most similar areas, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is well below the Queensland figure.
27
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.95
Higher than 69% 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).
569.2
Higher than 80% 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).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical drive time to the city is 77 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this level.
77
Higher 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)).
- 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 Coolum Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30686/coolum-beach/topic/transport