3.7% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mapleton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mapleton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Mapleton than in the rest of Queensland. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, though a striking 20.1% of workers now operate from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 78.1% of homes owning two or more vehicles. Only 3.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mapleton splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Not a single person commutes by public transport, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%. Instead, over half of workers drive themselves to work, while those working from home are well above the state average.
20.1% ▲ +80.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 20.1%
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: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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.
The drive time to the city is 80 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
80
Higher than 57% 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).
More for Mapleton
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mapleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31757/mapleton/topic/transport