2.1% ▼ -40.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Benarkin North · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Benarkin North
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Few things have changed in how people get around Benarkin North, but the area remains heavily reliant on cars. Almost every home here owns a vehicle, and there is no public transport available within the locality.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40.1% owning two vehicles. Only 2.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Benarkin North, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 56.3% of people being the driver. While 16.1% of people work from home, no one uses public transport to commute.
16.1% ▲ +40.2%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 16.1%
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 routes or stops in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average.
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 takes a long time, with a typical drive time of 111 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.
111
Higher than 75% 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 North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30232/benarkin-north/topic/transport