0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kents Lagoon · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kents Lagoon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Remote living is the norm in Kents Lagoon, where 30% of workers now operate from home. This is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%, reflecting a shift toward flexible work in a place with no public transport options. The area relies entirely on private cars to connect with the rest of the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Kents Lagoon has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households without a car. Most residents are well-equipped, with 40% of homes owning either two or three vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kents Lagoon splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (36%), with 1 vehicle at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, with 70% of people driving. The remaining 30% work from home, a figure that is well above the Australian average of 21%.
30.0% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means no one can reach a destination using transit within 45 minutes, and the number of stops 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).
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.
A typical trip to the city from Kents Lagoon takes 54 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
54
Lower than 59% 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 Kents Lagoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31509/kents-lagoon/topic/transport