0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brooks Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Brooks Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single household in Brooks Bay owns a car, making driving the primary way people get around. This reliance on vehicles is matched by a very high rate of people working from home, with 41.7% of workers avoiding a daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Brooks Bay is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. Most households have one vehicle, while 25% own two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Brooks Bay, 1 vehicle is the majority at 70%; 2 vehicles is next at 30%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of the state or nation, at 41.7%. Because of this, no one in the area uses public transport to get to work.
41.7% —
Higher than 92% 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Brooks Bay, leaving it far below the Tasmanian average for service access.
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.
Daily travel is slow, with a 57-minute drive to the city and a 31-minute walk to the nearest transport stop.
31
Higher than 67% 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.
57
Lower than 58% 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 Brooks Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60081/brooks-bay/topic/transport