4.4% ▼ -51.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Fingal · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Fingal
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift toward more flexible work patterns has seen 11.1% of Fingal residents now working from home. The area is heavily reliant on cars, with the typical home owning two or more vehicles and almost no one using public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 38.1% owning two and 12.2% owning four or more. Only 4.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fingal, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 71.1% of the workforce. No one in the area commutes by public transport, which is well below the national figure.
11.1% ▲ +303.7%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 11.1%
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.
While there are 2 public transport stops and 1 bus route, the service is limited. There are 55.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Tasmanian figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.64
Higher than 76% 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).
55.7
Higher than 63% 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.
Getting around is challenging, as it takes 32 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 124 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
32
Higher than 68% 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.
124
Higher than 83% 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 Fingal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60200/fingal/topic/transport