7216, TAS · Postcode

Transport & Vehicles in 7216, TAS

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

Fewer people are without a car in postcode 7216 than in 2011, with the share falling by 2.9 percentage points. This area relies almost entirely on private cars and home-based work, with no one using public transport to get to their job.

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📍 7216, TAS, Postcode

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one vehicle, and those without a car make up 5.4% of households. This is a little below the Australian figure of 7.4% and about the same as the Tasmanian average.

5.4% ▼ -35.2%

Higher than 65% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 8.3%
  • 2016: 6.8%
  • 2021: 5.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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7216, TAS splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 57.8% of people, while 11.5% work from home. This share of home workers is well above the state figure of 8.0%, though well below the 21.0% national average.

11.5% ▲ +64.5%

Lower than 69% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 7.0%
  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 11.5%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 0.3%
  • 2016: 0.5%
  • 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 7216, TAS, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is very limited here, with only two stops and two routes serving the area. This results in just 0.56 stops per 1,000 people, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 6.13.

0.56

Lower than 80% 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).

9.5

Lower than 75% 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in 7216, TAS [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA7216/7216-tas/topic/transport