Moore Park Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Moore Park Beach

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

Few areas have a higher reliance on cars than Moore Park Beach, where almost no one uses public transport to get to work. While the area has more transit stops than many similar places, very few people actually use them, leaving the car as the primary way to move around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are common here, with 39% of homes owning two vehicles and only 2.2% of households having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

2.2% ▼ -34.6%

Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.3%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 2.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Moore Park Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The typical commute is by car, as 70% of workers drive themselves. Very few people work from home at 7%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%, and no one uses public transport for their commute.

7.0% ▲ +9.3%

Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.4%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 7.0%

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: 2.2%
  • 2016: 0.7%
  • 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 Moore Park Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

Public transport access

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

Moore Park Beach has more public transport stops than most similar areas, with seven stops and one bus route. However, weekly departures are far below the Queensland figure.

2.42

Higher than 67% 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).

29.1

Higher than 60% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to a stop can take time, as the walk to the nearest one is 30 minutes, which is higher than most areas.

30

Higher than 67% 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.

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 Moore Park Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31905/moore-park-beach/topic/transport