0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Emu Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Emu Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 40% of the workforce in Emu Creek works from home, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on home-based work is common in an area where every single household owns a motor vehicle and there is no local public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Emu Creek has at least one vehicle, which is well below the national and state rates for households without a car. Most families have two or three vehicles, with 46.2% owning two and 23.1% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Emu Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 39.6%, far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. For those who do travel, 50.9% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.
39.6% ▲ +28.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 39.6%
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.
Public transport is non-existent in Emu Creek, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This means access to services is far below the state 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 to the city is a long trip, with the drive time taking 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 Emu Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30974/emu-creek/topic/transport