0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Meander · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Meander
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Meander has a motor vehicle, making it much more car-dependent than the Tasmanian and national figures. This reliance on private transport is a key part of life here, as there are no public transport routes or stops serving the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with no homes lacking a vehicle. More than half of all households own two or more cars, and 12.7% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Meander, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, while 16.1% work from home—a figure well above the state average. No one in the area uses public transport to get to their job.
16.1% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 16.1%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Meander. This puts the area far below the Tasmanian average for transit access.
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 to the city is a significant journey, with drive times around 150 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.
150
Higher than 90% 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 Meander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60392/meander/topic/transport