0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forest · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Forest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 71% of working residents in Forest drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way to get around. This is a place where almost every home owns a vehicle, reflecting a total lack of local public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Forest is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%. Most households have two cars, while 15.2% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Forest, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 7.4%. No one uses public transport to commute, and 4.1% of workers walk to their jobs.
7.4% ▼ -2.3%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 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 stops or routes in the area, which is far below the Tasmanian average of 6.13 stops per 1,000 people.
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.
Access to transit is very limited, with the walk to the nearest stop taking 76 minutes, among the highest times for areas like this.
76
Higher than 94% 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 Forest
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60208/forest/topic/transport