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.
Tunnel · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tunnel
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car is the striking reality for Tunnel, where almost every household relies on their own transport. This small area is almost entirely dependent on private vehicles for daily travel and getting to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Tunnel has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the Tasmanian and national figures for households without a car, with 61.5% of homes owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tunnel, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 4 or more (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, with 70.7% of workers driving or riding as a passenger. No one in Tunnel works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with no stops or routes serving the area. This is far below the Tasmanian average for transport access and weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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 a challenge, with a 32-minute walk to the nearest stop. This is higher than most areas and is consistent with a drive time to the city that is among the highest at this level.
32
Higher than 68% 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.
148
Higher than 89% 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 Tunnel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60698/tunnel/topic/transport