5.1% ▼ -34.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
St Marys · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in St Marys
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people use public transport to get to work in St Marys (Tas.), making it a place almost entirely reliant on cars. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the area struggles with very low service frequency despite having a few more stops than similar towns.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have one or two cars, though 5.1% of homes have no motor vehicle. This lack of a car is much more common here than in most other similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →St Marys splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 57.7% of people as the driver. Around 11.8% of people work from home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure but well below the national average.
11.8% ▲ +71.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 11.8%
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 4 bus routes and 3 stops, which is more than most similar areas. However, with only 81.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, service frequency is far below the state figure.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.07
Higher than 74% 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).
81.3
Higher than 66% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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 St Marys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60634/st-marys/topic/transport