0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Scrubby Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Scrubby Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A total reliance on cars defines daily life in Scrubby Creek, where every single household owns at least one vehicle. This dependency is matched by a lack of public transport and a long 119-minute drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have two cars, with 61.5% of households fitting this pattern. No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Scrubby Creek, 2 vehicles is the majority at 62%; 1 vehicle is next at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 25% of people doing so, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. Those who do leave the house rely entirely on cars, as 0% of workers use public transport.
25.0% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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.
Travel is slow for those heading to the city, with a typical drive time of 119 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
119
Higher than 80% 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 Scrubby Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32530/scrubby-creek/topic/transport