Lonesome Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lonesome Creek

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

A shift toward flexible work is a standout feature for Lonesome Creek, where 31.7% of people now work from home. This far exceeds the national figure of 21%. In a place with no public transport, most residents rely on multiple vehicles to get around.

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📍 Lonesome Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Lonesome Creek has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland and Australian rates for households without a car. Most homes are well-equipped, with 33.3% owning four or more vehicles.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Lonesome Creek splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (32%), with 3 vehicles at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 31.7% of workers doing so, far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. For those who do travel, 55.4% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.

31.7% ▲ +32.2%

Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 24.0%
  • 2016: 33.7%
  • 2021: 31.7%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 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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In Lonesome Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Worked at home is next at 35%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Lonesome Creek. This means weekly departures and stop frequency are far below the Queensland average.

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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 Lonesome Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31682/lonesome-creek/topic/transport