0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Colliery · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Colliery
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car defines the transport landscape in Mount Colliery. This remote area relies entirely on private vehicles for movement, with no public transport options available. It is a heavily car-dependent community where the typical resident faces a long journey to reach the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have two or three vehicles, with 33.3% owning two and 31.1% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Colliery splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 32%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, as 63.2% of workers drive. About 15.8% of people work from home, a figure slightly above the Queensland average.
15.8% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 15.8%
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 serving the area. This puts the local access far below the Queensland average of nearly three stops per 1,000 people.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is a significant undertaking from here. The drive time is 151 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.
151
Higher than 90% 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 Mount Colliery [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31948/mount-colliery/topic/transport