0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Quamby Brook · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Quamby Brook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 46% of households in Quamby Brook have two motor vehicles, making car ownership a defining feature of the area. Residents rely heavily on private transport for daily life, which is consistent with the fact that no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. About 37% of households own three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Quamby Brook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 25% of the workforce doing so—a figure far above the Tasmanian average. The rest of the workforce relies almost entirely on driving, as 72.2% of people drive themselves to work.
25.0% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
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 access to services 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.
Getting into the city is a significant journey, with a typical drive time of 136 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
136
Higher than 87% 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 Quamby Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60529/quamby-brook/topic/transport