5.6% ▲ +140.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Parattah · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Parattah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero residents use public transport or work from home in Parattah, making it an area entirely reliant on private cars. This total dependence on driving is reflected in the local housing, where nearly 30% of homes own three vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 29.6% owning three and 14.8% owning four or more. About 5.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Parattah splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (29%) and 2 vehicles (27%), with 1 vehicle at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the only way people get to work here, with 73.5% of workers being the driver. This is consistent with the fact that nobody in the area works from home or uses public transport, figures that are far below the national average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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: 2.7%
- 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 the area. This lack of access is far below the Tasmanian average, 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.
The drive time to the city is 63 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this level.
63
Lower than 54% 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 Parattah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60489/parattah/topic/transport