0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Back Plains · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Back Plains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero per cent of homes in Back Plains lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. This total reliance on cars is a necessity for the area, as there are no public transport stops or routes available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home here owns at least one vehicle, with 28.1% of households owning four or more. This is far more common than in the rest of the state.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Back Plains splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (27%) and 2 vehicles (27%), with 4 or more at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the primary way to get to work for 64.2% of residents. About 13.4% work from home, which is similar to the Queensland figure but well below the national average.
13.4% ▼ -47.3%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 13.4%
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: 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.
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 means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is a significant trip, with a drive time of 126 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
126
Higher than 84% 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).
More for Back Plains
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Back Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30112/back-plains/topic/transport