Key-Access Public Toilets in Queensland

Queensland records 37 of Australia's 591 public toilets that need a key to open — 6% of the national total. That makes it the fifth-largest state total, behind New South Wales (272), Victoria (99), Australian Capital Territory (85) and Western Australia (57). They sit in 37 named towns.

No town records more than one; the 37 are spread one apiece across 37 places.

The list takes in Ampol Pimlico at 49 French Street, Blackstone Reserve, Peppertree Park and Nambour Dump Point.

The mix runs to 7 parks and reserves, 5 service stations, 5 shopping centres and 1 airport. Across the set the listings cover 6 of the 17 kinds of site the map names. A further 17 are filed under the map's catch-all "Other" category. They are 1% of the 4,551 public toilets recorded in Queensland, and 1% of the round-the-clock ones.

20 of the 37 are recorded as wheelchair accessible — including Portsmith Boat Ramp and Toowong Village. 1 is a Changing Places facility, with an adult-sized change table and a hoist. 1 opens with an MLAK key, the national Master Locksmiths Access Key. 6 of the 37 have a baby-change table, and every one of those sits at a site that is also wheelchair accessible.

17 of the 37 are published as open 24 hours — such as Lynd Oasis Roadhouse and Shell Coles Express Tingalpa. 5 open in daylight hours only, 4 list variable hours and 1 follows the host venue's hours. Where set times are published, the earliest opening is 4am at Freedom Fuel Acacia Ridge and the latest closing is 11pm at Caltex Maryborough. 10 publish no weekly hours at all, so treat those as unknown rather than open.

2 of the 37 charge for entry; the rest are free. These are locked, and the key is held by an operator — a council office, a caretaker, a surf club or a nearby business. This is a separate set from the MLAK network: across the whole dataset only three listings record both, so a Master Locksmiths Access Key will not open most of the places listed here. Every figure here is counted from the National Public Toilet Map, which operators and councils update at their own pace.