Mathinna · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mathinna

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

A total reliance on private cars defines daily life in Mathinna, where there are no public transport routes or stops. With no trains or buses available, residents must find their own way to work, though a surprising 12.1% of workers are able to walk to their jobs.

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📍 Mathinna, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Around 7.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Tasmanian figure. Most households do have a car, with 31.8% owning one and 18.2% owning two.

7.6% ▲ +1.3%

Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.5%
  • 2016: 6.6%
  • 2021: 7.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mathinna, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 38%, followed by 2 vehicles (22%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Not a single person uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. While 54.5% of workers drive, those working from home make up 9.1% of the group, a figure far below the Australian average.

9.1% ▼ -58.7%

Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 22.0%
  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 9.1%

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.

How people get to work

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In Mathinna, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Walked is next at 16%.

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, leaving it far below the Tasmanian average for service access. This means there are zero weekly departures for the whole community.

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mathinna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60386/mathinna/topic/transport