0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cottonvale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cottonvale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 140-minute drive to the city marks Cottonvale as a very remote area. This isolation is reflected in the local transport habits, where every single home owns a motor vehicle and over a third of the workforce avoids the commute entirely by working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as 0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 64% owning either two or three vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cottonvale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (29%) and 1 vehicle (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, at 32.7% compared to 21.0%. This high rate of home-based work is consistent with the fact that 0% of residents use public transport to get to work.
32.7% ▲ +61.1%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7 per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The journey to the city is a significant undertaking, with a typical drive time of 140 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
140
Higher than 88% 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 Cottonvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30732/cottonvale/topic/transport