3.3% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oyster Cove · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Oyster Cove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A vast gap in public transport use separates Oyster Cove from the rest of the country, with no residents using it to get to work. Most households rely heavily on cars, and the typical home has two or more vehicles to manage the distance to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
More than half of all homes have two vehicles, and only 3.3% of households are without a car. This lack of vehicles is a little below the Tasmanian figure and well below the national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Oyster Cove, 2 vehicles is the majority at 51%; 1 vehicle is next at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.7% of people being the driver. While 12% work from home—which is well above the state figure—nobody in the area commutes using public transport.
12.0% ▲ +15.5%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 12.0%
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: 7.8%
- 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.
The area has three bus routes and two stops, which is more than most similar areas. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Tasmanian figure, and no one can reach others via transit within 45 minutes.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.06
Higher than 82% 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).
209.1
Higher than 73% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
It takes 29 minutes to drive to the city, which is faster than in most similar areas. However, walking to the nearest stop takes 58 minutes, a time that is much higher than most other areas.
58
Higher than 84% 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.
29
Lower than 75% 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 Oyster Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60485/oyster-cove/topic/transport