3.8% ▼ -36.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kinka Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kinka Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 65% of working residents in Kinka Beach drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the area has very little public transport infrastructure compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over half of homes have just one motor vehicle, and only 3.8% of households have none. This is a little below the Queensland figure, meaning more homes here own a car than the state average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kinka Beach, 1 vehicle is the majority at 55%; 2 vehicles is next at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home at 4.1%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Only 1.8% of workers use public transport, which is much higher than most similar areas despite being lower than the state average.
4.1% ▼ -14.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▼ -23.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 routes or stops in Kinka Beach. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Kinka Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31549/kinka-beach/topic/transport