Brandy Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Brandy Creek

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Car ownership has remained essential in Brandy Creek, where every single home now has at least one motor vehicle. This total reliance on private transport is reflected in the way people get to work and the lack of local transit services.

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📍 Brandy Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area owns a car, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% for homes without one. Most residents have multiple vehicles, with 56.1% owning two and another 44% owning three or more.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Brandy Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 3 vehicles (19%) and 4 or more (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, though 5.2% use public transport, which is a little above the national figure of 3.1%. Around 12.1% work from home, a rate that is well below the Australian average of 21%.

12.1%

Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 14.3%
  • 2021: 12.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

5.2%

Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.5%
  • 2021: 5.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Brandy Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is virtually non-existent here, with no stops or routes serving the area. This puts the local service level far below the Queensland average of 721 weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Brandy Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30360/brandy-creek/topic/transport