Alonnah · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Alonnah

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

A total reliance on cars defines daily life in Alonnah, where no one uses public transport to get to work. This car-dependent lifestyle is clear in the figures, with 40% of homes having one vehicle and another 44% having two or three.

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📍 Alonnah, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few homes here lack a car, with only 4.0% having no motor vehicle. This is a little below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1% and well below the national figure of 7.4%.

4.0%

Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 4.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Alonnah, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in Alonnah uses public transport to get to work. This is a little below the state figure, while those working from home at 4.7% is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.

4.7%

Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 8.5%
  • 2021: 4.7%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Alonnah, Car (driver) is the majority at 86%; Walked is next at 7%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This lack of access means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Tasmanian figure of 767.0.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 83 minutes to drive from here to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.

83

Higher 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 Alonnah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60012/alonnah/topic/transport