Back Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Back Creek

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

More people work from home in Back Creek than in most similar areas, with 27.3% of the workforce doing so. This is a sparsely populated area where private vehicles are the primary way to get around, as there are no public transport options available.

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📍 Back Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 3 vehicles at 64%, ahead of 4 or more (36%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Back Creek, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 50%, followed by 4 or more (29%) and 2 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost everyone who doesn't work from home drives, with 90.9% of workers using a car as the driver. This relies on private travel, as 0.0% of residents use public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.

27.3%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 14.3%
  • 2021: 27.3%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Back Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Back Creek. This puts the area far below the New South Wales average for both the number of stops and the frequency of departures per 1,000 people.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Back Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10124/back-creek/topic/transport