0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bellingham · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bellingham
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for living in Bellingham, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on driving is stark, with no one using public transport to get to work and the typical commute to the city taking nearly three hours each way.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here has multiple cars, with 45.7% owning two and 25.7% owning three. This means far fewer homes are without a vehicle compared to the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bellingham, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the only way residents get to work, with 74.2% as the driver. No one works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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%
- 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 is far below the state average of 6.13 stops per 1,000 people.
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 major trip, with drive times reaching 169 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.
169
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 Bellingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60040/bellingham/topic/transport