0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boat Harbour Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Boat Harbour Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Boat Harbour Beach relies on a car to get around, making it stand out among similar areas. With no public transport stops nearby, the community is almost entirely dependent on private vehicles for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for households without a car. About 47.5% of homes have one vehicle, while 42.5% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Boat Harbour Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (46%) and 2 vehicles (41%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Most people drive themselves or as a passenger, though 16.3% work from home, a rate well above the Tasmanian average.
16.3% ▲ +166.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 16.3%
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 routes or stops in the area. This means departures and stops per person are far below the state figures.
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 around is a challenge without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 53 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is also among the highest for its level at 222 minutes.
53
Higher than 81% 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.
222
Higher than 99% 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 Boat Harbour Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60059/boat-harbour-beach/topic/transport