Emita · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Emita

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

Nearly 73% of workers in Emita drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars in this rural area. Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is a much higher rate of ownership than across Tasmania and Australia.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in Emita lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have one car, though 11.5% of homes own four or more vehicles.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Emita, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (21%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is a common choice for 21.2% of workers, but no one uses public transport or works from home. This lack of remote work is far below the Australian figure of 21%.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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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 Emita, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Walked is next at 23%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Emita. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Tasmanian average of 767 per 1,000 people.

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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 Emita [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60189/emita/topic/transport