McKinlay · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in McKinlay

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

More than half of all households in McKinlay have four or more motor vehicles. This reliance on private transport is reflected in the local data, where every single home owns at least one vehicle. While cars are essential, a surprisingly high number of people also work from home or use public transport.

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📍 McKinlay, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in McKinlay has a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% with no car. Most households are heavily equipped, with 56.5% owning four or more vehicles and 26.1% owning three.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In McKinlay, the largest group is 4 or more at 50%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 2 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is much more common here than most areas, at 31.6%, which is far above the Queensland figure. Interestingly, 13.9% of people use public transport to get to work, a rate far above the national figure of 3.1%.

31.6% ▲ +87.2%

Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 16.9%
  • 2016: 14.9%
  • 2021: 31.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

13.9% ▼ -39.2%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 22.9%
  • 2016: 20.1%
  • 2021: 13.9%

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 McKinlay, the largest group is Worked at home at 43%, followed by Bus (19%) and Walked (16%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in McKinlay. This puts the area far below the Queensland average for stops per 1,000 people.

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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 McKinlay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31794/mckinlay/topic/transport