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.
Swan Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Swan Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Swan Bay has a motor vehicle, highlighting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This makes the area stand out compared to the state and national figures, where a small number of households typically have no vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 84.4% of homes owning three or more vehicles. No households in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmanian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Swan Bay, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 4 or more (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 74.6% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 7.8%, a figure far below the Australian average, and nobody uses public transport to commute.
7.8% ▲ +114.7%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 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 routes or stops in the area. This leaves the community with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average.
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.
Getting around is challenging without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 27 minutes. The drive time to the city is 136 minutes, which is much higher than in most other areas.
27
Higher than 64% 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.
136
Higher than 87% 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 Swan Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60658/swan-bay/topic/transport