Bangor · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bangor

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

Every single household in Bangor owns a motor vehicle, making car travel essential for daily life. This reliance on private transport is clear, as there are no public transport routes or stops serving the area.

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📍 Bangor, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 21.4% owning four or more. This is far more common than in the rest of Tasmania or Australia, where around 6% to 7% of homes have no vehicle at all.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Bangor, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 35%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 60% of workers drive themselves to work, and 13.8% work from home. This home-working rate is well above the Tasmanian figure, though it remains well below the national average.

13.8%

Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 8.6%
  • 2021: 13.8%

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 Bangor, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is completely absent in Bangor. There are no stops or routes here, which is far below the state average for service access.

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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.

Daily travel is dominated by the car, and the drive time to the city is 148 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.

148

Higher than 89% 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 Bangor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60029/bangor/topic/transport