Mount Coolon · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Coolon

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

Remote working patterns have shifted significantly in Mount Coolon, where 33.3% of people now work from home. This is far above the national figure of 21%. While public transport use is surprisingly high for such a rural area, there are no local stops or routes available.

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📍 Mount Coolon, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 4 or more at 82%, ahead of 3 vehicles (27%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Coolon, 4 or more is the majority at 75%; 3 vehicles is next at 25%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

A third of the workforce works from home, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. Interestingly, 9.3% of people use public transport to get to work, which is well above the 3.1% national average.

33.3% ▲ +35.5%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 24.6%
  • 2016: 55.6%
  • 2021: 33.3%

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

9.3% ▲ +873.8%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 9.3%

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 Coolon, the largest group is Worked at home at 42%, followed by Car (driver) (22%) and Walked (14%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures and stops per person is far below 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 Coolon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31949/mount-coolon/topic/transport