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.
Gretna · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gretna
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car highlights the total reliance on private vehicles in Gretna. This small community is far more car-dependent than the Tasmanian or national average. Residents rely almost entirely on their own transport to get around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Gretna has at least one motor vehicle. Most households own multiple cars, with 38% having two and 20.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gretna, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 73.3% of people commuting as the driver. Far fewer people work from home here compared to the national figure, at just 4.8%.
4.8% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 4.8%
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.
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. This means Gretna has far fewer services than the Tasmanian average.
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.
It takes about 56 minutes to drive from Gretna to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.
56
Lower than 58% 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 Gretna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60252/gretna/topic/transport