0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cowley Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cowley Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A stark gap exists between Cowley Beach and the rest of the country, as there is no public transport and no one works from home. Every single household in this small area owns at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on private cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one vehicle, though about 30% have two. This means 0% of households are without a car, a figure well below the 7.4% national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cowley Beach, 1 vehicle is the majority at 54%; 2 vehicles is next at 26%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost entirely done by car, as 45.8% of the workforce drive themselves. No one in the area uses public transport to commute or works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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: 4.0%
- 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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with zero routes, stops, or weekly departures. This lack of access is far below the Queensland average of 721 weekly departures 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).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cowley Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30738/cowley-beach/topic/transport