4.6% ▼ -17.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Maleny · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Maleny
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport in Maleny, making private cars and home offices the primary ways people manage their daily lives. This is a place where 22.1% of workers operate from home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. Most residents rely on their own vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have one vehicle, and 33.9% have two. Only 4.6% of households live without a motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below both the Queensland and national averages.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Maleny, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 22.1% of the workforce doing so, which is higher than most similar areas. Very few people use public transport to commute—just 0.4%—while 50.6% of workers drive themselves to work.
22.1% ▲ +78.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -67.7%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is almost non-existent in Maleny, with zero recorded stops or routes. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.
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 into the city takes about 69 minutes by car, which is around the middle mark for areas of this type.
69
Higher than 50% 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 Maleny [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31739/maleny/topic/transport