4.6% ▼ -75.0%
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Currumbin · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Currumbin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport to get to work in Currumbin than in the rest of the country. Only 1% of workers use these services, while the vast majority rely on cars for their daily commute. This dependence on vehicles is reflected in the high number of cars per household.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 4.6% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This figure is lower than most areas and has fallen 14 points since 2011. Most homes own at least two vehicles, with 39.4% having exactly two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Currumbin splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the dominant way to get to work, used by 62.7% of residents. While 14.8% of people work from home—a figure that rose 8.8 points since 2011—this is well below the national figure of 21%.
14.8% ▲ +145.7%
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -39.2%
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Bus services are the only form of public transport available here. While there are only 10 routes and fewer stops than most similar areas, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far above the Queensland figure.
165
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.43
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,319.0
Higher than 63% of state electorate 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).
10
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Currumbin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30024/currumbin/topic/transport