Apollo Bay · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Apollo Bay

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

Zero public transport services are available in Apollo Bay (Tas.), making it far more reliant on private vehicles than other parts of the state. This lack of transit is a defining feature of the area, where residents face a typical 67-minute drive to reach the city.

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📍 Apollo Bay, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 55%, ahead of 4 or more (27%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Apollo Bay, 1 vehicle is the majority at 67%; 4 or more is next at 33%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 71%, ahead of Worked at home (36%).

How people get to work

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In Apollo Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

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 means the number of weekly departures is far below the Tasmanian figure of 767 per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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.

Getting to the city takes a typical 67 minutes by car, which is around the middle for similar areas.

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Lower than 52% 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

  • 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 Apollo Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60017/apollo-bay/topic/transport