Badger Head · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Badger Head

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

A 165-minute drive to the city makes Badger Head one of the most remote areas at this level. Every single household here owns a motor vehicle, highlighting a total reliance on cars to get around.

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📍 Badger Head, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least two cars, with 48% owning two and 20% owning four or more. Not a single household in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Badger Head, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 65.2% of residents. While 13% of people work from home—well above the Tasmanian average—no one here uses public transport to commute.

How people get to work

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In Badger Head, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Worked at home is next at 17%.

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 means the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.

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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 is a significant journey, with the drive time taking 165 minutes.

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Higher than 93% 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 Badger Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60025/badger-head/topic/transport