2.5% ▼ -32.5%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kalkie · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kalkie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the primary way of getting around Kalkie, where only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia, reflecting a strong reliance on driving for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 42.9% owning two vehicles and 15.9% owning three. Very few homes lack a vehicle, a rate well below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kalkie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 76% of people as the main driver. Only 4.3% work from home, which is far below the Australian average.
4.3% ▲ +33.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -38.0%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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.
Kalkie has more public transport stops and routes than about 79% of similar areas, though it has only two routes. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure.
7
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.36
Higher than 67% 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).
144.5
Higher than 72% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 15 minutes, which is around the middle for its level.
15
Higher than 53% 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 Kalkie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31474/kalkie/topic/transport