Macks Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Macks Creek

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

A 167-minute drive to the city makes Macks Creek one of the most remote areas in its class. This is a sparsely populated place where residents rely almost entirely on private vehicles to get around.

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📍 Macks Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 54%, ahead of 3 vehicles (31%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Macks Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (27%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The most common how people get to work is Walked at 29%, ahead of Worked at home (29%).

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Macks Creek splits fairly evenly between Walked (38%) and Worked at home (38%), with Car (driver) 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 here. This puts Macks Creek far below the Victorian average for both the number of stops and weekly departures 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical commute is very long, with the drive time to the city reaching 167 minutes. This is among the highest travel times for similar areas.

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Higher than 93% 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

  • 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 Macks Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21563/macks-creek/topic/transport