0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Surges Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Surges Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 40% of homes in Surges Bay have two motor vehicles, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars for daily travel. This is a sparsely populated area where every single household owns at least one vehicle, making it far less common to be without a car than in the rest of Tasmania or Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Surges Bay is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 6.1% of Tasmanian households and 7.4% of Australian homes that lack one. Most households have two cars, though about 18% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Surges Bay, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Drivers make up 58.5% of the workforce, while 13.8% work from home, a figure well above the Tasmanian average of 8.0%. No one in the area commutes using public transport.
13.8% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 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 two public transport routes and stops, providing 12.27 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state figure. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the Tasmanian average.
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.
12.27
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).
233.1
Higher than 73% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
A typical trip to the city takes about 55 minutes by car. For those using public transport, the walk to the nearest stop takes around 19 minutes.
19
Higher than 58% 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.
55
Lower than 59% 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Surges Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60655/surges-bay/topic/transport