0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Benarkin · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Benarkin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 106-minute drive to the city defines the remote nature of Benarkin. Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle, meaning residents rely entirely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Benarkin is without a car, a figure well below the 5.8% of Queensland homes that have no vehicle. A third of households have one car, while another third have two, and 26.7% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Benarkin splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 100%, ahead of Car (passenger) (0%).
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport routes, stops, or weekly departures in the area. This is far below the Queensland figure, leaving the community with no local transit options.
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.
The drive time to the city is 106 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
106
Higher than 73% 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 Benarkin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30231/benarkin/topic/transport