Midge Point · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Midge Point

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

Every single home in Midge Point has at least one motor vehicle. This makes it a place where car ownership is far more common than in the rest of Queensland and Australia.

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📍 Midge Point, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 78.2% of homes owning either one or two vehicles. This is well below the national figure for homes without a car, a trend that has fallen since 2011.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.9%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Midge Point splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (42%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get around, with 72.2% of workers driving themselves and 0.0% using public transport. This is far below the national rate for people working from home, which stands at 21.0%.

3.8% ▼ -12.3%

Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.3%
  • 2016: 4.5%
  • 2021: 3.8%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 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 Midge Point, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Car (passenger) is next at 9%.

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 Midge Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322080/midge-point/topic/transport