Greens Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Greens Beach

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

Almost every home in Greens Beach owns a car, making it far more vehicle-dependent than most similar areas. This reliance is clear as 23.9% of the workforce works from home and there are no public transport options available locally.

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📍 Greens Beach, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households without one. About half of homes have one car, while 38.1% have two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 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 Greens Beach, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of Tasmania, with 23.9% of people doing so. For those who leave the house, 64.8% drive themselves to work.

23.9% ▲ +248.9%

Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.9%
  • 2016: 9.8%
  • 2021: 23.9%

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.

How people get to work

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In Greens Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is completely unavailable in the area, with no stops or routes available. This is far below the Tasmanian average for transport access.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 215 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.

215

Higher than 99% 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 Greens Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60251/greens-beach/topic/transport