Kooralbyn · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kooralbyn

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

Reliance on private cars has remained the primary way to move around Kooralbyn, where almost every household owns at least one vehicle. This is a rural area where public transport is virtually non-existent, leaving residents to depend on driving for almost all their travel needs.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 3.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Most households have one or two cars, while 14.2% of homes own three vehicles.

3.1% ▼ -9.6%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 3.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Kooralbyn splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 63.4% of people as the driver and another 4.5% as passengers. Working from home is common for 13.9% of residents, though this is well below the national figure of 21%.

13.9% ▲ +124.6%

Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.2%
  • 2016: 7.7%
  • 2021: 13.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.6% ▼ -52.5%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 0.5%
  • 2021: 0.6%

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 Kooralbyn, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is absent here, with no stops, routes, or departures recorded. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.

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.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 72 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.

72

Higher than 52% 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 Kooralbyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31569/kooralbyn/topic/transport