0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merinda · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Merinda
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A complete shift in travel habits has occurred in Merinda since 2011, with a notable rise in public transport use. Every single home here now has at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Merinda is without a car, a figure well below the Queensland average of 5.8%. Most households own two vehicles, while 18.8% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Merinda, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 73.3% of residents. While 3.3% now use public transport—a rise from zero in 2011—no one here works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.3% ▲ —
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.3%
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.
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 Merinda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322078/merinda/topic/transport