0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sisters Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sisters Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Sixty-four per cent of working residents in Sisters Creek drive to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While the area has a high number of transport stops, the actual service is far below the state figure, which is reflected in the long drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Sisters Creek has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures. Most households are well-equipped, with about 30% owning four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sisters Creek splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 4 or more (33%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 20.0% of people doing so, which is far above the Tasmanian figure. In contrast, nobody in the area uses public transport to get to work.
20.0% ▲ +70.9%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 20.0%
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.
The area has 12.42 stops per 1,000 people, far above the state average, but these are only served by one bus route. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Tasmanian figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
12.42
Higher than 88% 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).
87.0
Higher than 67% 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.
It takes 224 minutes to drive to the city, one of the longest times for similar areas. Getting to the nearest transport stop is also difficult, with a 30-minute walk being higher than most areas.
30
Higher than 67% 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.
224
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 Creek
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Sisters Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60604/sisters-creek/topic/transport