6.0% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kawungan · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kawungan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher rates of public transport use compared to similar areas mark Kawungan as a bit of an outlier. However, the area remains heavily reliant on cars, with 71.1% of workers driving themselves to work and very few people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though 6% of households have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kawungan splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 5.3% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. While 0.4% use public transport to get to work—a higher rate than most similar areas—this is still well below the Queensland average of 3%.
5.3% ▲ +29.2%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -48.8%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 results in zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is 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 Kawungan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31495/kawungan/topic/transport