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.
Meringandan · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Meringandan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance has remained absolute in Meringandan, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This makes it a place far more dependent on private transport than the national average. Most households keep multiple cars to manage the long distances to the city and local services.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home here has at least one vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and national rates for carless homes. Over half of all households have two cars, and another 21.6% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Meringandan, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 3 vehicles is next at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 72.3% of people as drivers. Only 7.3% work from home, a figure that is far below the national average.
7.3% ▲ +51.4%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 7.3%
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: 2.1%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Bus services are the only option here, though weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure. There is only one public transport stop and one route serving the area.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.89
Higher than 65% 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).
94.3
Higher than 68% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 around is challenging without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 58 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas, and the drive time to the city is 102 minutes.
58
Higher than 84% 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.
102
Higher than 70% 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 Meringandan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31808/meringandan/topic/transport