0.9% ▼ -73.4%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kalbar · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kalbar
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 40% of households in Kalbar have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people get around. This is a highly car-dependent area where very few people rely on public transport or work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here owns a car, with only 0.9% of households having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kalbar, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 62.5% of people being the driver. Only 11% of people work from home, which is well below the Australian figure of 21%.
11.0% ▲ +101.3%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 virtually non-existent in Kalbar, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This puts it far below the Queensland figure for transport access.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes typically 58 minutes to drive from Kalbar to the city, which is around the middle for its level.
58
Lower than 57% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Kalbar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31471/kalbar/topic/transport