0.6% ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lake Macdonald · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lake Macdonald
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 67% of workers in Lake Macdonald drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. This is a sparsely populated area where almost every home owns a vehicle and there is no local public transport available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every household owns a car, with only 0.6% having none, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. The most common setup is two vehicles per home, while 16.4% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lake Macdonald, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (20%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, though 15.2% work from home, which is a little above the Queensland figure. Only 0.7% use public transport, which is a little below the national average.
15.2% ▲ +101.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Getting around is a challenge without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 40 minutes. The drive time to the city is 88 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
40
Higher than 74% 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.
88
Higher than 62% 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 Lake Macdonald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31615/lake-macdonald/topic/transport