10.8% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merryburn · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Merryburn
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of all homes in Merryburn have two motor vehicles. This is a car-dependent area where very few people work from home and public transport options are non-existent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 10.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Despite this, most households are well-equipped, with 20% owning three vehicles and 6.2% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Merryburn, 2 vehicles is the majority at 51%; 3 vehicles is next at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 68.7% of people as the driver. Only 3.6% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
3.6% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.0% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.0%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Merryburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31815/merryburn/topic/transport