0.8% ▼ -25.2%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pie Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pie Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Pie Creek, where only 0.8% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This makes the area far more dependent on cars than the state and national averages.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost half of all homes have two vehicles, and over 14% have four or more. Very few households get by without a car, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pie Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 3 vehicles (19%) and 1 vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive themselves to work, with 72.5% using a car as the driver. Only 8.9% work from home, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 21%.
8.9% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves local service levels far below the Queensland average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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.
Living here involves long trips, with a typical drive time to the city of 113 minutes. Reaching the nearest transport stop would take 65 minutes on foot, both of which are much higher than most areas.
65
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
113
Higher than 77% 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).
More for Pie Creek
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Pie Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32310/pie-creek/topic/transport