McIlwraith · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in McIlwraith

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

Two thirds of working residents in McIlwraith drive themselves to work. This car-dependent area sees every single household owning at least one motor vehicle, far exceeding national patterns where more people live without a car.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has a vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures for households without a car. Most residents own one or two vehicles, though nearly a quarter of homes have three.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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McIlwraith splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, while 11.5% of people work from home. This is a little below the state figure and well below the national average for working from home.

11.5% ▲ +2.2%

Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.3%
  • 2016: 16.2%
  • 2021: 11.5%

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: 4.8%
  • 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 McIlwraith, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

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 the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland average.

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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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in McIlwraith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31792/mcilwraith/topic/transport