Cradle Mountain · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cradle Mountain

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

Three quarters of the workforce in Cradle Mountain walk to work, a striking figure that dwarfs the national trend. This sparsely populated area has almost no reliance on traditional commuting, as very few people use cars or work from home.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 133%, ahead of 3 vehicles (133%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Cradle Mountain splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (50%) and 3 vehicles (50%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is the primary way to get to work for 75.5% of residents. Only 6.4% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

6.4% —

Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 6.4%

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

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Cradle Mountain, Walked is the majority at 81%; Car (driver) is next at 13%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent here, with no routes or stops available. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure 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).

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cradle Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60133/cradle-mountain/topic/transport