Calliope · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Calliope

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

Very few households in Calliope go without a car compared to similar areas. Almost every home has at least one vehicle, and nearly half of all households own two, making the area highly reliant on private transport.

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📍 Calliope, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 1.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% and the national figure of 7.4%. This is a decrease from 4.5% in 2011.

1.8% ▼ -59.7%

Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.5%
  • 2016: 8.7%
  • 2021: 1.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Calliope, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 72.5% as the driver and 4.5% as a passenger. Very few people work from home at 2.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

2.8% ▼ -63.1%

Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.7%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 2.8%

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

0.4% ▼ -65.9%

Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.3%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.4%

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 Calliope, Car (driver) is the majority at 89%; Car (passenger) is next at 6%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Calliope [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315012/calliope/topic/transport