0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pelverata · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pelverata
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car is the striking reality for Pelverata, a place where vehicle ownership is far more common than across Tasmania or Australia. In this rural area, almost every household relies on their own transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Pelverata lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the 6.1% state figure. Most households have two or three vehicles, with 15.7% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pelverata, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, as 64% of people drive and 0% use public transport. This is consistent with the fact that only 9.6% of workers operate from home, a figure far below the national average of 21%.
9.6% ▲ +58.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 9.6%
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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops or routes available. This leaves the area far below the Tasmania average of 6.13 stops 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.
A drive to the city takes about 163 minutes, which is among the highest travel times for areas of this type.
163
Higher than 92% 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).
More for Pelverata
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Pelverata [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60500/pelverata/topic/transport