Edith Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Edith Creek

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

Every single home in Edith Creek has at least one motor vehicle, which is a much higher rate of ownership than seen across Tasmania and Australia. This total reliance on cars defines how people move and work in this rural area.

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📍 Edith Creek, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is high here, with 39% of homes owning two vehicles and nearly 10% having four or more. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national averages.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 6.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Edith Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 54.1% of residents, while 19.7% work from home. This working-from-home rate is far above the Tasmanian average, though it sits a little below the national figure.

19.7%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 19.7%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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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.

How people get to work

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In Edith Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with no routes or stops available. This means weekly departures are far below the Tasmanian average.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Edith Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60181/edith-creek/topic/transport