Cornwall · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cornwall

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

Car ownership has remained a necessity in Cornwall, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is reflected in the lack of public transport and a very long commute to the city.

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📍 Cornwall, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in the area owns a car, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. Nearly half of all households have two vehicles, while 19.4% own three.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Cornwall, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 57%, ahead of Car (passenger) (0%).

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In Cornwall, Car (driver) is the majority at 100%.

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 means weekly departures and stop counts are far below the Tasmanian average.

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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.

Getting to the city is a long trip, taking 134 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. Walking to the nearest stop would take 82 minutes, among the highest recorded for this level.

82

Higher than 98% 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.

134

Higher than 87% 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 Cornwall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60129/cornwall/topic/transport