Coral Cove · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Coral Cove

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

Almost every household in Coral Cove relies on a private car to get around. Very few people here use public transport or work from home compared to the rest of the country. This creates a lifestyle where driving is the primary way to access work and services.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with half of all homes owning two vehicles and only 0.6% of households having no motor vehicle at all. This is well below the 5.8% of Queensland homes without a car.

0.6% ▼ -75.7%

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 0.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Coral Cove, 2 vehicles is the majority at 50%; 1 vehicle is next at 29%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to get to work, as 71.3% of people are the main driver. Very few residents work from home at 9.7%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport to commute.

9.7% ▲ +69.3%

Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.7%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 9.7%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 2.2%
  • 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 Coral Cove, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

Public transport access

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

While Coral Cove has 8 stops and more transport stops per person than the state average, these are rarely used. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland figure.

5.47

Higher than 79% 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).

65.7

Higher than 65% 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.

Getting to a transit stop is relatively easy, as the typical walk to the nearest stop is only 3 minutes, which is much lower than most areas.

3

Lower than 79% 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.

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 Coral Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30716/coral-cove/topic/transport