6.7% ▼ -37.5%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Morayfield · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Morayfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Morayfield than in the rest of the country, with only 8.5% doing so. This reliance on external workplaces is mirrored in a high dependency on cars for daily travel. While most homes now own at least one vehicle, public transport use remains very low.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households in Morayfield own at least one car, with 37.1% having one and 34.7% having two. The proportion of homes without any motor vehicle has fallen to 6.7%, which is about the same as the Queensland and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Morayfield splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 64.3% of people acting as the driver. Very few residents use public transport for their commute, and only 8.5% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
8.5% ▲ +31.6%
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.4% ▲ +27.1%
Lower than 51% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 2.4%
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.
Access to public transport is limited, with 384.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average. This is reflected in the low number of stops per 1,000 people, which is much lower than most similar areas.
144
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.44
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
384.9
Lower than 75% of state electorate 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).
55
Higher than 86% of state electorate 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Morayfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30057/morayfield/topic/transport