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.
Falmouth · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Falmouth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Falmouth than in the rest of Tasmania, with 26% of the workforce doing so. This is a place where every single household owns a motor vehicle, and there is no public transport available to residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Falmouth has a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for households without a car. Half of the homes have one vehicle, while 43.1% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Falmouth, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (41%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, at 26.0%, which is far above the Tasmanian figure of 8.0%. No one uses public transport to get to work, and the most common commute is driving, used by 54.0% of workers.
26.0% ▲ +115.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 26.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport routes or stops in Falmouth. This means there are no weekly departures for residents, a figure that is far below the state average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 around is a challenge for those without a car, as it takes 81 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop, which is among the highest times for similar areas.
81
Higher than 97% 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.
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 Falmouth
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Falmouth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60197/falmouth/topic/transport