Plenty · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Plenty

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Zero homes in Plenty (Tas.) lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Tasmanian and national averages. This reliance on private cars defines the area, where almost every household owns multiple vehicles and public transport is non-existent.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here have several cars, with 92% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This explains why no homes in the area are without a motor vehicle.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Plenty splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (29%), with 4 or more at 21%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Over half of workers drive themselves to work, and 13% work from home, which is well above the state figure but well below the national average. No one uses public transport to commute.

13.0%

Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 13.3%
  • 2021: 13.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Plenty, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

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 means the number of weekly departures and stops per person is far below the Tasmanian average.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 33 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.

33

Lower than 71% 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 Plenty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60508/plenty/topic/transport