1.8% ▼ -74.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Triabunna · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Triabunna
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few households without a car live in Triabunna, with only 1.8% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is clear in the daily routine, where the vast majority of residents depend on their own cars to get around and get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 40.2% owning two and 15.9% owning three. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is well below the Tasmania figure of 6.1% and the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Triabunna, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 63.7% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 7.8%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
7.8% ▲ +69.6%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
Triabunna has 9.94 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Tasmanian average. However, the 132.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 767.0.
9
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.94
Higher than 87% 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).
132.6
Higher than 72% 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.
It takes about 70 minutes to drive to the city from here. Getting to the nearest stop is a challenge for many, with a typical walk of 58 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
58
Higher than 84% 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.
70
Higher than 50% 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 Triabunna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60690/triabunna/topic/transport