Mount Murchison · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Murchison

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

A total reliance on cars defines daily life in Mount Murchison, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This is a stark contrast to the national figure, as every household here owns at least one vehicle to manage their travel.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with over half of all homes owning three or more vehicles. This is well below the state and national figures for homes with no vehicle, which sit at 0.0% here.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mount Murchison splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (29%) and 4 or more (26%), with 1 vehicle at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 67.8% as the driver and 6.8% walking. Very few people work from home at 5.1%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

5.1% ▼ -53.0%

Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.8%
  • 2016: 14.9%
  • 2021: 5.1%

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

0.0% → —

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 Mount Murchison, Car (driver) is the majority at 85%; Walked is next at 9%.

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 leaves the town with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the Queensland average.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mount Murchison [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32006/mount-murchison/topic/transport