Mourilyan · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mourilyan

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

More people here use public transport to get to work than in most similar areas, yet Mourilyan has no formal transit stops. While 4.6% of homes do not own a car, the vast majority of residents rely on private vehicles for their daily travel.

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📍 Mourilyan, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own at least one car, with 41.8% having two vehicles. Those without a motor vehicle make up 4.6% of homes, which is a higher figure than in most similar areas.

4.6% ▲ +12.5%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.1%
  • 2016: 5.7%
  • 2021: 4.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mourilyan splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving a car is the primary way to get to work for 69.3% of residents. Very few people work from home at 4.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

4.8% ▲ +117.1%

Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.2%
  • 2016: 6.2%
  • 2021: 4.8%

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

1.8% ▲ —

Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 1.8%

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 Mourilyan, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Walked is next at 8%.

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 puts Mourilyan far below the Queensland figure for service access, despite some residents still using 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mourilyan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32043/mourilyan/topic/transport