Peak Crossing · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Peak Crossing

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

Almost every single home in Peak Crossing has a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national averages. This high level of car ownership reflects the area's isolation and total lack of public transport options. It takes 46 minutes to drive to the city.

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📍 Peak Crossing, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has at least one vehicle, with 41.2% owning two and 20.6% owning four or more. This means the share of homes without a car is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Peak Crossing, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 4 or more (21%) and 1 vehicle (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 63.8% of people driving and 12.4% working from home. The 12.4% who work from home is well below the national figure of 21%.

12.4% ▲ +72.7%

Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.2%
  • 2016: 7.1%
  • 2021: 12.4%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.3%
  • 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 Peak Crossing, 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 non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes serving the area. Consequently, no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, and the number of weekly departures is far below the state 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).

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 46 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas.

46

Lower than 64% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Peak Crossing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32288/peak-crossing/topic/transport