8.3% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kawana · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kawana
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Few things have shifted in the way people move around Kawana, where car travel remains the dominant choice. Most households rely on their own vehicles, while very few residents work from home or use public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.3% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Queensland figure. Most households have either one vehicle (40.4%) or two (35.1%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kawana, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the main way to get to work, with 70.7% of people driving and 8.5% travelling as passengers. Very few people work from home at 2.6%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
2.6% ▲ +89.4%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -50.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Kawana, with no recorded stops or routes. This lack of infrastructure is reflected in the fact that only 1.3% of workers use public transport, a figure far below the Queensland average.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Kawana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31493/kawana/topic/transport