0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barker Creek Flat · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barker Creek Flat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over a third of homes in Barker Creek Flat keep three motor vehicles, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars in this rural area. It is a place where almost every household owns a vehicle and most people who work do so from home or by driving.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Most households have multiple cars, with 18.2% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Barker Creek Flat splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (36%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 4 or more at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 21.7% of people work from home, a figure well above the Queensland average. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.
21.7% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 21.7%
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.
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, leaving it far below the Queensland average for service access.
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 into the city is a long trip, with a drive time of 141 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
141
Higher than 88% 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 Barker Creek Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30160/barker-creek-flat/topic/transport