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.
Abels Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Abels Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Two-thirds of working residents in Abels Bay drive themselves to work, reflecting a total reliance on cars for transport. Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle, which is much lower than the national figure for homes without a car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Abels Bay lacks a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Tasmanian and national averages. Most households have one or two cars, with 44.1% owning one and 37.3% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Abels Bay, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (40%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, while 11.1% of residents work from home. This working-from-home rate is well above the Tasmanian figure but well below the national average.
11.1% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This leaves the location with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the state average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical drive time to the city is 56 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
56
Lower than 58% 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)).
- 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 Abels Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60002/abels-bay/topic/transport