0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Opossum Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Opossum Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Opossum Bay is without a motor vehicle, highlighting a complete reliance on cars for this area. While public transport options exist, they are rarely used for commuting in a place where the typical trip to the city takes 37 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home here has at least one vehicle, a figure well below the Tasmanian and national rates for carless households. Nearly 40% of homes have two vehicles, and about 27% have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Opossum Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 65.4% of people driving. While 15.6% work from home—well above the Tasmanian figure—no one in the area commutes using public transport.
15.6% ▲ +39.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 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.
Opossum Bay has 7 stops and 2 routes, which is more than about 79% of similar areas. However, these services do not help people reach other residents within 45 minutes, and weekly departures are well below the state figure.
7
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
18.28
Higher than 91% 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).
522.2
Higher than 79% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest stop takes only 3 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. Despite this proximity, the drive time to the city is 37 minutes, a figure lower than most similar places.
3
Lower 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.
37
Lower than 69% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Opossum Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60478/opossum-bay/topic/transport