Myrtle Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Myrtle Creek

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

One third of households in Myrtle Creek own four or more motor vehicles, far exceeding the national trend. This is a car-dependent area where 30% of the workforce works from home and there is no available public transport.

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📍 Myrtle Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. Ownership is high, with 33.3% of households owning four or more vehicles.

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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In Myrtle Creek, the largest group is 4 or more at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (26%) and 3 vehicles (26%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here at 30%, which is well above the national figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work.

30.0%

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 30.0%

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 Myrtle Creek, the largest group is Car (driver) at 44%, followed by Worked at home (35%) and Car (passenger) (12%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts Myrtle Creek far below the Victorian average for transit access.

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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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 84 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

84

Higher than 59% 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 Myrtle Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21861/myrtle-creek/topic/transport