Dysart · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Dysart

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

Zero homes in Dysart are without a motor vehicle, making car ownership essential for every household. This reliance on driving is clear across the area, where the vast majority of people drive themselves to work.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with over 60% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This is well below the Tasmanian and national figures for homes without a car, which both sit above 6%.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Dysart splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 4 or more (27%), with 1 vehicle at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 71.4% of people, while only 7.1% work from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the national figure of 21%.

7.1% ▼ -20.3%

Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.0%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 7.1%

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: 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 Dysart, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; Worked at home is next at 9%.

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 serving the area. This is far below the Tasmanian average for transport stops and departures.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Residents face a 40-minute drive to reach the city, which is lower than the travel time for most similar areas.

40

Lower than 67% 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 Dysart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60173/dysart/topic/transport