0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barkers Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barkers Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Barkers Creek has a car, making it more vehicle-reliant than the national average. The area is sparsely populated and mostly depends on private transport, with nearly a quarter of workers operating from home. Public transport is very limited, with only one bus route serving the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% national figure. Most households own more than one car, with 47.3% having two and 19.4% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barkers Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here at 24.8%, which is well above the Australian figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work, with the vast majority of residents driving.
24.8% ▲ +267.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is far below the state average, with only one stop and one bus route available. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 30.8, which is far below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.05
Higher than 66% 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).
30.8
Higher than 61% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city takes 79 minutes by car. Access to transport is limited, with a 37-minute walk to the nearest stop, which is higher than most similar areas.
37
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
79
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Barkers Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20141/barkers-creek/topic/transport