0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Scotchtown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Scotchtown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Total reliance on cars defines daily life in Scotchtown, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This makes the area much more car-dependent than the Tasmanian and national averages, with most households owning two or more vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Scotchtown is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the 6.1% in Tasmania and 7.4% nationally. Most households have multiple cars, with 41.7% owning two and 31% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Scotchtown, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (31%) and 1 vehicle (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70% of residents, while 5.7% walk. Only 6.4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
6.4% ▼ -25.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 6.4%
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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with no routes or stops serving the area. This lack of access is far below the state average of 6.13 stops 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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Scotchtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60591/scotchtown/topic/transport