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.
Lower Wattle Grove · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lower Wattle Grove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Lower Wattle Grove has at least one motor vehicle, making a car essential for daily life here. With no local public transport, residents rely heavily on driving or working from home to stay connected.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are standard here, with 63.2% of homes owning two vehicles and 0.0% of households without one, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lower Wattle Grove, 2 vehicles is the majority at 65%; 1 vehicle is next at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 32.0% of residents, a figure far above the Tasmanian average of 8.0%. This helps explain why 0.0% of people use public transport to get to work.
32.0% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 32.0%
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.
Public transport is nonexistent in the area, with zero stops and routes. This is far below the state average of 6.13 stops per 1,000 people.
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.
Getting around is slow and difficult without a car, as it takes 89 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. The drive to the city takes about 47 minutes.
89
Higher than 99% 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.
47
Lower than 63% 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 Lower Wattle Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60364/lower-wattle-grove/topic/transport