0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Epping Forest · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Epping Forest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more households in Epping Forest have cars than the state or national average, with not a single home lacking a vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars is clear in the commute, where 60.5% of workers drive themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% of homes with none. Many residents have multiple cars, with 30.3% of households owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Epping Forest, the largest group is 4 or more at 34%, followed by 2 vehicles (24%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, while 10.5% walk. Those who work from home make up 13.2% of the workforce, a figure well above the Tasmanian average of 8%.
13.2% —
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 11.49 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state figure. All available services are bus routes, with 850.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.49
Higher than 88% 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).
850.6
Higher than 85% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
Getting to the city takes a long time, with a drive time of 111 minutes. It is also a long walk for many, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 29 minutes.
29
Higher than 66% 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.
111
Higher than 75% 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).
More for Epping Forest
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Epping Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60191/epping-forest/topic/transport