4.0% ▼ -20.2%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Penguin · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Penguin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private car use remains the dominant way to travel in Penguin, though the area has more public transport stops than most similar places. Most homes have at least one vehicle, with 35.6% of households owning two. This reliance on cars is clear in the way people get to work and the long drive times to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Few homes go without a car here, as only 4% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Penguin splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 71% of residents. Only 7.1% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
7.1% ▲ +36.0%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -29.1%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Penguin has 24 public transport stops and 3 routes, which is more than about 80% of similar areas. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Tasmanian figure.
24
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.81
Higher than 81% 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).
200.4
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city takes a long time, with drive times among the highest at this level. It also takes longer than usual to reach the nearest stop, with a typical walk of 32 minutes.
32
Higher than 68% 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.
189
Higher than 97% 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 Penguin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60501/penguin/topic/transport