Kiamba · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kiamba

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Not a single home in Kiamba is without a motor vehicle, making the car essential for daily life in this area. This heavy reliance on private transport is reflected in the fact that almost every household owns at least one car, with over half owning two or more.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The typical home has multiple cars, with 23% owning four or more vehicles. This is far below the state and national figures for homes without any car, which sit at 5.8% and 7.4% respectively.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Kiamba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 1 vehicle (27%), with 4 or more at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost 60% of workers drive themselves to work, while 15.9% work from home. This is a little above the Queensland figure for working from home, but well below the national rate of 21%.

15.9%

Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 13.8%
  • 2021: 15.9%

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.

How people get to work

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In Kiamba, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This lack of infrastructure is far below the Queensland average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 81 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

81

Higher 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)).
  • 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 Kiamba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31522/kiamba/topic/transport