2.7% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Grindelwald · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Grindelwald
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained the dominant way to get around Grindelwald, with almost every home owning at least one vehicle. While there are a few public transport options, the area is heavily reliant on private cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 2.7% lacking a vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have multiple cars, as 40.1% own two and 13.6% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Grindelwald, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody in the area uses public transport to get to work. Instead, 65.7% drive as the main driver, while 14.6% work from home, a figure that is well above the Tasmanian average of 8.0%.
14.6% ▲ +188.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 14.6%
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: 0.7%
- 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 4 bus routes and 2 stops serving the area, which is more than most similar places. However, the 79.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 767.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.93
Higher than 65% 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).
79.1
Higher than 66% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
A typical trip to the city takes 136 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. Despite the long commute, it only takes 4 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop, which is lower than most areas.
4
Lower than 71% 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.
136
Higher than 87% 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 Grindelwald
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Grindelwald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60253/grindelwald/topic/transport