0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dairy Plains · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dairy Plains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Dairy Plains than in the rest of the country, with 31.4% doing so. This rural area is almost entirely dependent on private cars for travel, as there is no public transport available and no households without a vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% of homes without one. Most households are heavily equipped, with 62.5% owning three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dairy Plains splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (31%) and 3 vehicles (27%), with 2 vehicles at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 31.4%, far above the 21% national average. For those who do travel, 57.1% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.
31.4% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 31.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes available. This is far below the Tasmania average of 6.13 stops 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 to the city is a significant journey for residents, with a drive time of 149 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.
149
Higher than 90% 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 Dairy Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60144/dairy-plains/topic/transport