0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barretta · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barretta
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Half of all working residents in Barretta drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. This is a place where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle, far exceeding the patterns seen across Tasmania and Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Barretta is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. About 21% of households own four or more vehicles, while 45% have just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barretta, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here at 17.6%, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 8%. No one uses public transport to get to work, and half of the workforce drives as the sole occupant of their car.
17.6% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Public transport is almost non-existent in the area, with zero stops or routes available. This makes the trip to the city by transit very slow, taking 83 minutes, which is among the highest times for similar areas.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
83
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
A drive to the city takes about 18 minutes, which is much lower than in most other similar areas. However, the walk to the nearest transit stop takes around 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.
18
Lower than 85% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Barretta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60031/barretta/topic/transport