0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bees Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bees Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Bees Creek lacks a motor vehicle, a stark contrast to 11.1% of households across the Northern Territory. This total reliance on cars defines how people move around the area, with the vast majority of residents driving themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 78.5% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This explains why the area has a much lower rate of carless households than both the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bees Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 72.8% of residents. Very few people use public transport (0.9%) or work from home (5.9%), and the latter is far below the national figure of 21%.
5.9% ▲ +40.8%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -57.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
While Bees Creek has a high number of bus stops and routes compared to similar areas, these services don't actually help people reach others within 45 minutes. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Northern Territory figure.
12
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
14.94
Higher than 90% 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).
290.2
Higher than 74% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The walk to the nearest public transport stop is very short, taking only 2 minutes, which is much lower than most other areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
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 Bees Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70026/bees-creek/topic/transport