0.6% ▲ —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alligator Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Alligator Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single household in Alligator Creek owns a motor vehicle, with only 0.6% of homes lacking one. This heavy reliance on cars is a defining feature of the area's transport landscape. Most residents depend on their own vehicles for daily travel and work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, and 53.1% of homes have two vehicles. This is far more common than in the rest of Australia, where 7.4% of households have no vehicle compared to just 0.6% in Alligator Creek.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Alligator Creek, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 3 vehicles is next at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 72.4% as the driver. Only 7.6% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Very few people use public transport to commute, at just 0.4%.
7.6% ▲ +40.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -74.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This lack of infrastructure is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Alligator Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30040/alligator-creek/topic/transport