Main Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Main Creek

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

Not a single home in Main Creek is without a motor vehicle, making it a place where car ownership is universal. This total reliance on private cars is reflected in the way people travel, with almost no one using public transport to get to work.

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📍 Main Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 80% of households owning either two or three vehicles. This is far below the state and national figures for homes with no motor vehicle, which sit at 9.2% and 7.4% respectively.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Main Creek splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (36%), with 1 vehicle at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 44.2% of people. While 18.6% work from home, this is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%, and no one in the area commutes using public transport.

18.6% —

Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 14.8%
  • 2021: 18.6%

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 Main Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. Consequently, weekly departures are far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6 per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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 Main Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12455/main-creek/topic/transport