Wallaces Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wallaces Creek

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

Every single home in Wallaces Creek has at least one motor vehicle, making the area entirely dependent on cars for daily travel. This reliance is clear as no one uses public transport to get to work and the typical drive to the city takes 66 minutes.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 47.8% of homes keeping two vehicles and another 30.4% having three or more. This means the 0.0% of homes without a vehicle is well below both the Queensland and national figures.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wallaces Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 32%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people rely on their own car to get to work, with 65.3% driving. Those who work from home make up 12.2% of the workforce, which is a little below the Queensland figure and well below the national average.

12.2% —

Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 12.2%

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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In Wallaces Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 84%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is nonexistent in the area, with no stops or routes available. This puts the number of stops per 1,000 people far below the Queensland figure.

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.

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 typical commute to the city involves a 66-minute drive, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.

66

Lower than 52% 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 Wallaces Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32961/wallaces-creek/topic/transport