0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Paloona · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Paloona
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Paloona, where every single home owns at least two vehicles. This total reliance on driving is mirrored by the complete absence of public transport options in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every household has a car, and over half of Paloona homes own three vehicles. This means the share of homes without a motor vehicle is 0.0%, which is well below the Tasmanian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Paloona splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (47%) and 2 vehicles (43%), with 4 or more at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost everyone relies on cars to get to work, as 46.7% are drivers and 8.9% are passengers. Very few people work from home at 8.9%, a figure that is far below the Australian average.
8.9% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.9%
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.
There are no public transport routes or stops serving the area. This puts Paloona far below the state average for service access, with zero weekly departures 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 to the city is a significant trip, with drive times among the highest for similar areas at 178 minutes.
178
Higher than 95% 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 Paloona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60487/paloona/topic/transport