1.8% ▲ —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dromedary · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dromedary
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.8% of Dromedary homes lack a motor vehicle, meaning almost every household relies on a car. The area is very car-dependent, with the vast majority of residents driving themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 84.4% of households owning two or more vehicles. This is well below the state and national figures for homes without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dromedary splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (28%), with 4 or more at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.7% of residents. Very few people work from home at 5.9%, which is far below the national figure, and no one uses public transport to commute.
5.9% ▲ +139.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts the number of stops per 1,000 people far below the Tasmanian figure.
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).
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Despite the lack of public transit, the drive time to the city is 25 minutes, which is much lower than most similar areas.
25
Lower than 79% 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).
More for Dromedary
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Dromedary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60168/dromedary/topic/transport