2.2% ▲ —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hawley Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hawley Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Forty per cent of homes in Hawley Beach have two motor vehicles, making cars the dominant way people get around. This is a car-dependent area where very few households get by without a vehicle, and almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1% and the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have at least one car, with 15.2% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hawley Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes using public transport, and 68.3% of workers drive themselves to work. While 12.5% of people work from home—which is well above the state figure—this is well below the national rate of 21.0%.
12.5% ▲ +90.7%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 12.5%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has one public transport route and one stop, though the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Tasmanian figure. All available public transport is provided by buses.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.69
Higher than 64% 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).
52.5
Higher than 63% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Getting around is difficult without a car, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 21 minutes. This is higher than most areas, and drive times to the city are among the highest for the region.
21
Higher than 60% 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.
181
Higher than 96% 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 Hawley Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60264/hawley-beach/topic/transport