0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sisters Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sisters Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero per cent of households lack a motor vehicle in Sisters Beach, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. This heavy reliance on cars is a defining feature of the area, where almost every home owns at least one vehicle. The lack of local public transport means residents must rely on their own transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have two cars, making up 44.3% of households. Other common setups include one vehicle at 32.8% and three vehicles at 13.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sisters Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost everyone travels by car, with 74.8% driving to work and 2.4% as passengers. Very few people work from home at 9.7%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
9.7% ▲ +110.4%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 9.7%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts the local access far below the Tasmanian figure, 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.
The drive time to the city is 225 minutes, which is among the highest for areas of this type.
225
Higher than 99% 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).
More for Sisters Beach
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Sisters Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60603/sisters-beach/topic/transport