5.2% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Adventure Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Adventure Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops serve Adventure Bay, making the area almost entirely dependent on private cars. While most homes have at least one vehicle, about 5.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
One in three homes has a single vehicle, though 28.1% have two and 22.9% have three. This means most households rely on their own transport to get around.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Adventure Bay, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 36%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. About 12.3% of people work from home, which is well above the Tasmanian average of 8.0%.
12.3% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 12.3%
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: 1.6%
- 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, stops, or weekly departures in the area. This puts Adventure Bay far below the Tasmanian average for transit access.
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 drive time to the city is 80 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
80
Higher than 57% 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 Adventure Bay
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Adventure Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60007/adventure-bay/topic/transport