Marian · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Marian

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

Nearly 73% of workers in Marian drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on private cars. This is a place where almost every household owns a vehicle and very few people work from home.

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📍 Marian, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 1.4% of homes in Marian have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. This is a significant drop from 2011, and nearly half of all households now own two vehicles.

1.4% ▼ -84.5%

Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.8%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 1.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Marian, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is rare here at 4.6%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21.0%. While public transport use rose slightly since 2011 to 1.8%, it remains a little below the national figure.

4.6% ▼ -2.6%

Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 4.6%

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

1.8% ▲ +181.7%

Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 1.3%
  • 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 Marian, Car (driver) is the majority at 86%; Worked at home is next at 5%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Marian [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315058/marian/topic/transport