Bushy Park · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bushy Park

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

Almost 75% of workers in Bushy Park drive themselves to work, highlighting a total reliance on cars. The area is essentially car-dependent, with every single home owning at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Bushy Park, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household here owns a vehicle, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. About 33% of homes have two vehicles, while nearly 16% have four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.5%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Bushy Park, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in Bushy Park works from home or uses public transport to get to work, figures that are far below the national average. Nearly all residents rely on cars, with 74.6% driving themselves.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.5%
  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

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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.

How people get to work

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In Bushy Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 95%; Car (passenger) is next at 5%.

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 lack of access is far below the Tasmanian average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 41 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.

41

Lower than 67% 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 Bushy Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60086/bushy-park/topic/transport