Maaroom · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Maaroom

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

Car ownership has remained the only way to get around in Maaroom, where every single home has at least one motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is mirrored by a complete lack of public transport options in the area.

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📍 Maaroom, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in Maaroom owns a car, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% of homes without one. Nearly half of all homes have one vehicle, while 43.6% have two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.7%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Maaroom, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (41%) and 3 vehicles (7%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost 70% of workers drive themselves to work, and 9.3% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.

9.3% ▲ +67.4%

Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.6%
  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 9.3%

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: 4.2%
  • 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 Maaroom, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Maaroom, leaving it far below the Queensland average for service access.

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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).

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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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Maaroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31716/maaroom/topic/transport