3.3% ▼ -46.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sunshine Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sunshine Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of workers in Sunshine Beach drive to work, though the area is far more likely to have people working from home than the national average. While car travel dominates, the neighborhood has a high number of public transport stops and services for its size.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, and only 3.3% of households have no motor vehicle. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sunshine Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 25.8% of residents doing so, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. Meanwhile, only 1.5% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure slightly below the national average.
25.8% ▲ +123.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▲ +20.9%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
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.
Bus services are plentiful, with 15 stops and 4 routes across the area. This results in 1,292.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far above the Queensland figure of 720.7.
15
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.05
Higher than 82% 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).
1,292.3
Higher than 88% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
Residents have very quick access to transit, with a typical 3-minute walk to the nearest stop. However, it takes 92 minutes to drive to the city, which is longer than in most areas.
3
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
92
Higher than 64% 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 Sunshine Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32700/sunshine-beach/topic/transport