Highcroft · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Highcroft

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

Every single home in Highcroft has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for carless households. This makes the area almost entirely dependent on private cars for travel.

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📍 Highcroft, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 70% of homes have either one or two vehicles. No households in the area are without a car, a figure well below the 6.1% for Tasmania and 7.4% for Australia.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Highcroft splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (50%) and 2 vehicles (50%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 47%, ahead of Worked at home (27%).

How people get to work

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In Highcroft, the largest group is Car (driver) at 50%, followed by Worked at home (29%) and Car (passenger) (21%).

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero routes and stops available. This leaves the area far below the Tasmanian average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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.

Getting to the city takes about 78 minutes by car. Because there are no local services, the walk to the nearest stop takes 49 minutes, which is much higher than in most areas.

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Higher than 79% 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.

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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 Highcroft [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60273/highcroft/topic/transport