0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Marcus Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Marcus Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Marcus Beach than in the typical Queensland area, with 23.4% doing so. While the area has excellent public transport frequency and stop counts compared to the state, almost every household here relies on a car to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Marcus Beach is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Marcus Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 23.4% of residents work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure, only 0.8% use public transport for their daily commute.
23.4% ▲ +118.2%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -33.1%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 very accessible here, with 4.77 stops and 1,072.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people, both of which are well above the state figures.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.77
Higher than 77% 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).
1,072.7
Higher than 87% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 to the city is a long trip, taking 125 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. It also takes a typical resident 25 minutes to walk to the nearest stop.
25
Higher than 63% 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.
125
Higher than 83% 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 Marcus Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31762/marcus-beach/topic/transport