Premaydena · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Premaydena

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

Working from home has become a major trend in Premaydena, with 30.9% of the workforce now doing so. This is far above the state figure and reflects a shift toward remote work in a place where almost every household relies on a car.

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📍 Premaydena, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, as 0% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia, with 62.3% of households owning two vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Premaydena, 2 vehicles is the majority at 61%; 3 vehicles is next at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

A huge 30.9% of people work from home, which is far above the 8% seen across Tasmania. This helps explain why 0% of the workforce uses public transport to get to work.

30.9%

Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 29.3%
  • 2021: 30.9%

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.

How people get to work

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In Premaydena, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and zero routes. These figures are far below the Tasmanian average for transport access.

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.

Getting around requires a car, as there is no local transit and the walk to the nearest stop takes 54 minutes. This walk is much longer than in most other similar areas.

54

Higher than 82% 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.

65

Lower than 53% 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 Premaydena [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60518/premaydena/topic/transport