2.9% ▼ -60.2%
Lower than 61% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
7214, TAS · Postcode
Transport & Vehicles in 7214, TAS
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes in postcode 7214 are without a car now than in 2011, with only 2.9% of households lacking a vehicle. This heavy reliance on private cars is reflected in how people travel to work and the very limited public transport available in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 35.4% owning two and 11.3% owning four or more. The proportion of households without a vehicle has fallen by 4.4 percentage points since 2011, leaving this area well below the Tasmanian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →7214, TAS splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, used by 64.1% of residents, while 0.0% use public transport. This is a little below the state figure, though 12.2% of people now work from home, an increase of 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
12.2% ▲ +59.9%
Lower than 66% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is very limited, with only two stops and one bus route serving the area. With just 38.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people, this is far below the Tasmanian figure of 767.0.
2
Lower than 71% of postcode areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.17
Lower than 55% of postcode areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
38.1
Lower than 64% of postcode 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).
1
Lower than 71% of postcode areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in 7214, TAS [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA7214/7214-tas/topic/transport