0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Eaglehawk Neck · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Eaglehawk Neck
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Eaglehawk Neck now has a motor vehicle, a shift that makes the area far more car-dependent than the state and national figures. While public transport stops are plentiful, almost no one uses them to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 35.8% of homes owning two vehicles and 21.1% owning three. Not a single household in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmania and Australia averages.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Eaglehawk Neck splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 50.9% of residents. While 16.0% of people work from home—well above the state figure—no one in the area commutes using public transport.
16.0% ▲ +102.4%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 16.0%
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: 2.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 21.33 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Tasmanian average. However, this does not translate to high use, as weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state level.
9
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
21.33
Higher than 93% 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).
149.3
Higher than 72% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Residents face a 51-minute drive to the city, which is lower than most similar areas. For those not driving, the typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes 16 minutes.
16
Higher than 54% 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.
51
Lower than 61% 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 Eaglehawk Neck [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60174/eaglehawk-neck/topic/transport