14.7% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dowsing Point · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dowsing Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 80% of workers in Dowsing Point rely on driving themselves to get to work. While many homes have multiple cars, a striking 14.7% of households have no motor vehicle at all, which is well above the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 15% of homes here have no motor vehicle, a rate much higher than the Tasmanian average of 6.1%. For those who do own cars, about 32% have one vehicle, while 26.5% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dowsing Point, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 33%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 2 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area works from home or uses public transport to get to work, which is far below the national figure of 21% for working from home.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
The area has a very high number of bus stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people compared to the state average. However, it takes 51 minutes to reach the city by transit, which is lower than most areas.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
64.94
Higher 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).
3,987.0
Higher 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).
4
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
4,709
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
51
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
A short 4-minute walk takes residents to the nearest stop, and the drive time to the city is just 11 minutes, among the lowest for similar areas.
4
Lower than 71% 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.
11
Lower than 94% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Dowsing Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60167/dowsing-point/topic/transport