0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Aberdeen · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Aberdeen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Aberdeen relies on a car to get around. With no public transport available and very few people working from home, residents must drive for nearly all their daily needs. This is a car-dependent area where the typical home has two or more vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmania figure of 6.1%. Most households are well-equipped, with 48.5% owning two vehicles and 29.9% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Aberdeen, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 4 or more (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, as 75.4% of people drive and 7.7% travel as passengers. Very few people work from home at 5.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
5.4% ▲ +36.4%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Tasmanian average of 767.
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.
Access to services is limited, with a 56-minute walk to the nearest stop being much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is also among the highest for its level at 173 minutes.
56
Higher than 83% 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.
173
Higher than 94% 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).
More for Aberdeen
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Aberdeen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60003/aberdeen/topic/transport