17.9% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hastings · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hastings
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A striking 17.9% of homes in Hastings have no motor vehicle, which is far above the figures for Tasmania and Australia. This lack of cars is a standout feature for the area, despite the usual 78-minute drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 18% of households do not have a car, a figure far above the Tasmanian average. For those who do own vehicles, 32.1% have one and 28.6% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hastings splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (26%), with 2 vehicles at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 39.1% drive and 17.4% work from home, a rate well above the state average.
17.4% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
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 Hastings. This means the area 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.
The usual drive time to the city is 78 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
78
Higher than 55% 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 Hastings [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60262/hastings/topic/transport