0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Colebrook · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Colebrook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 112-minute drive to the city defines the remote nature of Colebrook. This is a place where car ownership is essential for daily life, as there is no public transport available to residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Colebrook has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. More than half of all households own two or more cars, with 18% having four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Colebrook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 4 or more (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work. While 15.6% of people work from home—well above the Tasmanian average—the most common way to commute is by driving a car.
15.6% ▲ +20.9%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 15.6%
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 stops or routes in the area. This leaves the community far below the state average for transit access, with zero weekly departures 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 around is entirely dependent on private travel, as the drive time to the city is 112 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
112
Higher than 76% 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).
More for Colebrook
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Colebrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60120/colebrook/topic/transport