Woongoolba · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Woongoolba

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

Nearly half of all homes in Woongoolba have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way to get around. This is a car-dependent area where the vast majority of residents rely on driving for their daily needs.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 16.5% having four or more. Only 3.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average of 7.4%.

3.1% ▼ -46.7%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.8%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 3.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Woongoolba, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 72.5% of residents. While 14.8% work from home, which is about the same as the Queensland figure, no one here commutes by public transport.

14.8% ▲ +8.3%

Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.7%
  • 2016: 18.7%
  • 2021: 14.8%

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: 2.6%
  • 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 Woongoolba, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

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 puts Woongoolba far below the Queensland average for transport access, with zero weekly departures 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 32 minutes to drive to the city. Because there are no local stops, the walk to the nearest one is among the longest for any area at this level, taking 88 minutes.

88

Higher than 99% 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.

32

Lower than 72% 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 Woongoolba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33154/woongoolba/topic/transport