Lalla · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lalla

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

A 142-minute drive to the city defines the isolated nature of Lalla, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This lack of public transport options makes the area heavily reliant on private cars for all daily travel.

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📍 Lalla, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in Lalla are without a car, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. Most households are well-equipped, with 37.5% owning three vehicles and 31.3% owning two.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Lalla, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here at 18.6%, a figure far above the Tasmania average. For those who do travel, 55.8% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.

18.6%

Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 17.9%
  • 2021: 18.6%

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.

How people get to work

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In Lalla, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

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 weekly departures and stop counts are far below the state figures.

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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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is difficult without a car, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 42 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.

42

Higher than 75% 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.

142

Higher than 88% 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 Lalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60317/lalla/topic/transport