0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gardners Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gardners Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Gardners Bay compared to the state and national figures, with every single household owning at least one vehicle. This total reliance on private transport is clear in a place where no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home here has a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. Most households have two cars, while 31.2% of homes own three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gardners Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 20% of residents doing so, which is far above the state average. This is a high rate for similar areas, though it remains a little below the national figure.
20.0% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
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.
Public transport is non-existent in Gardners Bay, with no routes or stops serving the area. This is far below the Tasmania average for both the number of stops and weekly departures.
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.
The drive time to the city is 40 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.
40
Lower than 67% 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 Gardners Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60221/gardners-bay/topic/transport