2.7% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Glen Huon · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Glen Huon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops define the landscape of Glen Huon, making it far more isolated from transit than the state average. Almost every household relies on a car to get around, with very few people able to get to work without a vehicle. This creates a heavy dependency on private transport for daily life.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 40.8% owning two and 17.3% owning three. Only 2.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Glen Huon, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 61.3% drive as the main driver, while 14.1% work from home, a rate well above the state average.
14.1% ▲ +106.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 14.1%
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: 1.2%
- 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 the area. This puts the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Tasmanian average of 767.
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 typical drive time to the city is 71 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
71
Higher than 51% 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).
More for Glen Huon
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glen Huon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60229/glen-huon/topic/transport