South Kolan · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in South Kolan

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

More than 62% of people in South Kolan drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Very few homes lack a vehicle, and the area has almost no public transport options.

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📍 South Kolan, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 43.2% of homes owning two vehicles and only 0.7% having none. This lack of vehicle-free homes is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.7% ▼ -30.3%

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.0%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 2021: 0.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In South Kolan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 10.1%. While 0.9% of people use public transport to get to work, this is still higher than in most similar areas.

10.1% ▲ +54.8%

Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.5%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 10.1%

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

0.9% ▲ +37.9%

Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 2021: 0.9%

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 South Kolan, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is effectively non-existent in South Kolan, with zero stops and zero routes. 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in South Kolan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32593/south-kolan/topic/transport