Port Curtis · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Port Curtis

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

About 62.3% of working residents in Port Curtis drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is reflected in the local housing, where very few homes lack a motor vehicle compared to national figures.

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📍 Port Curtis, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 3.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%. Most households own at least one car, with 31.4% owning two and 21.9% owning three.

3.8% ▼ -51.0%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.8%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 3.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Port Curtis splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (31%) and 2 vehicles (31%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work here. Additionally, 10.9% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.

10.9% ▲ +131.9%

Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 10.9%

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: 2.3%
  • 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 Port Curtis, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 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 1,000 people is far below the Queensland average.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Port Curtis [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32351/port-curtis/topic/transport