6.6% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rosebery · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rosebery
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people in Rosebery work from home, a figure that sits far below the national average. This reliance on physical workplaces is paired with a total lack of public transport use for commuting, making the car essential for almost everyone here.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 51% of households have one motor vehicle, while 28% have two. Only 6.6% of homes have no vehicle, which is about the same as the Tasmanian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rosebery, 1 vehicle is the majority at 52%; 2 vehicles is next at 28%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 64% of residents, and 10% walk. No one uses public transport or works from home, which is well below the state and national rates.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
Rosebery has one bus route and one stop, but the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Tasmanian average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.33
Higher than 63% 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).
18.6
Higher than 59% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 to the nearest transport stop is a challenge here, as the typical walk takes 79 minutes, which is among the highest times for this level of area.
79
Higher than 96% 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.
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 Rosebery [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60568/rosebery/topic/transport