Fly Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Fly Creek

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

Fly Creek stands out among similar areas for its high rate of car ownership and reliance on private travel. Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, which is far below the Northern Territory and national figures for households without a car.

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📍 Fly Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 46.7% of homes having two vehicles and 15% owning four or more. Not a single home in Fly Creek is without a motor vehicle.

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 Fly Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 60.6% as the driver and 7.1% as a passenger. Working from home is rare at 4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.

4.0%

Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 5.7%
  • 2021: 4.0%

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

3.0%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.0%

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 Fly Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 9%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is almost non-existent, with no stops or routes serving the area. This means zero people can be reached within 30 or 45 minutes using transit.

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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).

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Fly Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70102/fly-creek/topic/transport