Berriedale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Berriedale

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

About 66% of working residents in Berriedale drive themselves to work. While the area has an impressive number of bus stops and routes, car travel remains the primary way people get around. This is a place where public transport infrastructure is strong, yet very few people actually work from home.

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📍 Berriedale, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

More homes here have no motor vehicle than in most areas, with 8.6% of households without a car. This is a little above the 6.1% seen across Tasmania.

8.6% ▼ -20.0%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.8%
  • 2016: 9.5%
  • 2021: 8.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Berriedale splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Only 5.8% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Around 3.5% of workers use public transport, a rate that is much higher than in most similar areas.

5.8% ▲ +227.4%

Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.8%
  • 2016: 2.2%
  • 2021: 5.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

3.5% ▼ -31.1%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.1%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 3.5%

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 Berriedale, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Car (passenger) is next at 7%.

Public transport access

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

Berriedale has a high number of public transport stops—24 in total—and weekly departures are far above the state average. Despite this, the transit time to the city is 76 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

8.26

Higher than 86% 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).

1,831.7

Higher than 91% 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.

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).

76

Higher than 83% 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.

It takes about 13 minutes to drive to the city, which is much lower than in most areas. Residents typically face an 18-minute walk to the nearest stop, a figure around the middle for its level.

18

Higher than 57% 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.

13

Lower than 91% 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 Berriedale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60042/berriedale/topic/transport