Menzies · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Menzies

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

A striking 12.6% of households in Menzies have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure. This lack of car access is a key feature of the area, though the typical home still has at least one vehicle.

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📍 Menzies, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

While 46.2% of homes have one vehicle, the proportion of households without any motor vehicle is among the highest for similar areas, sitting well above both the Queensland and Australian figures.

12.6% ▲ +4.6%

Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 12.1%
  • 2016: 12.6%
  • 2021: 12.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Menzies, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (25%) and No vehicle (13%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 68.4% as the driver and 9.8% as a passenger. Only 1.5% of the workforce works from home, which is far below the national rate of 21.0%.

1.5% ▼ -29.9%

Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 2021: 1.5%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Menzies, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Car (passenger) is next at 11%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and routes serving the area. This is far below the Queensland average, and it explains why 0% of the workforce uses public transport to commute.

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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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Menzies [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31805/menzies/topic/transport