Kings Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kings Creek

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

A lack of public transport means most people in Kings Creek rely on private cars or working from home. About 32.4% of the workforce works from home, which is far above the national figure of 21%.

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📍 Kings Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 32%, ahead of 2 vehicles (32%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Kings Creek splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 33%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 32.4% of people doing so, a figure far above the Queensland average of 14.1%. No one in the area commutes using public transport, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.

32.4%

Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 30.8%
  • 2021: 32.4%

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.

How people get to work

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Kings Creek splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (50%) and Worked at home (50%).

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. This leaves the community with far fewer services than the Queensland average.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 138 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

138

Higher than 87% 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 Kings Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31544/kings-creek/topic/transport