1.3% ▼ -78.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dover · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dover
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of workers in Dover drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars in this area. Most homes have at least one vehicle, with very few residents using public transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has a car, and only 1.3% of households are without one, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dover splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to commute, while 10.2% of people work from home, a figure that is a little above the Tasmanian average but far below the national level.
10.2% ▲ +22.7%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 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.
While there are two bus routes and two stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Tasmanian average.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.17
Higher than 66% 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).
41.2
Higher than 62% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 nearest city takes about 57 minutes by car, and the walk to the closest public transport stop takes 39 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
39
Higher than 73% 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.
57
Lower than 58% 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 Dover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60165/dover/topic/transport