Flowerpot · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Flowerpot

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

Every single home in Flowerpot has at least one motor vehicle, making the area heavily dependent on cars for daily life. This reliance is clear as 35% of people work from home, which is far above the national figure of 21%.

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📍 Flowerpot, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The vast majority of households own two vehicles, with 72.2% of homes fitting this description. This means Flowerpot is well below the state and national figures for homes with no motor vehicle, which sit at 6.1% and 7.4% respectively.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Flowerpot, 2 vehicles is the majority at 63%; 1 vehicle is next at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 35% of the workforce doing so, a figure far above both Tasmania and Australia. No one in the area commutes by public transport, which is well below the national average of 3.1%.

35.0%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 35.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Flowerpot, Car (driver) is the majority at 56%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

Public transport access

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

Flowerpot has 18.52 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the state figure of 6.13. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.

18.52

Higher than 92% 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).

185.2

Higher than 73% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 37 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than most similar areas. Walking to the nearest transport stop takes around 18 minutes.

18

Higher than 57% 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.

37

Lower than 69% 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 Flowerpot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60205/flowerpot/topic/transport