0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barrington · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barrington
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A nearly three-hour drive to the city makes Barrington a place where cars are essential. Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, far exceeding the trends seen across Tasmania and Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are ubiquitous in Barrington, with 64.4% of homes owning three or more vehicles. No households in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barrington, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, and 16% work from home, which is well above the Tasmanian average of 8%. Not a single person here commutes using public transport.
16.0% ▲ +29.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 16.0%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves the community with far fewer services than the state average.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is a significant trip, with drive times reaching 172 minutes, among the highest for similar areas.
172
Higher than 94% 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 Barrington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60032/barrington/topic/transport