6.5% ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Avoca · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Avoca
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport to get to work in Avoca than the national average. While most residents rely on cars, about 16% work from home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure. The area is quite remote, with a typical drive time to the city of 101 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Avoca have one or two cars, with 36.4% owning one and 33.8% owning two. About 6.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Avoca splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area commutes to work using public transport, a figure well below the national average. Instead, 58.1% of workers drive themselves and 12.9% walk to their jobs.
16.1% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Avoca has 10.42 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Tasmanian average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure, with only bus services available.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
10.42
Higher than 87% 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).
125.0
Higher than 71% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Getting around is largely defined by distance, as the drive time to the city is higher than in most similar areas. The typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 16 minutes.
16
Higher than 54% 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.
101
Higher than 70% 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 Avoca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60023/avoca/topic/transport