Mount Chalmers · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Chalmers

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

Zero residents use public transport to get to work in Mount Chalmers, highlighting a massive gap compared to the national figure. The area relies almost entirely on private cars for travel, with every single home owning at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Mount Chalmers, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, as 0% of homes are without a vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and national figures. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles, while 12.3% have three.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Chalmers, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 1 vehicle is next at 26%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 61.6% of residents. This reliance on cars is consistent with the fact that 0% of the workforce uses public transport and only 12.8% work from home.

12.8% ▲ +53.5%

Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.3%
  • 2016: 9.6%
  • 2021: 12.8%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.5%
  • 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 Mount Chalmers, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

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 leaves the community with far fewer weekly departures per 1,000 people than the Queensland average.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mount Chalmers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31946/mount-chalmers/topic/transport