0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Upper Natone · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Natone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A three-and-a-half hour drive to the city defines the remote nature of Upper Natone. Every single home here owns a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the state and national averages.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 64% of households owning three or more vehicles. None of the homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Upper Natone, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people rely on cars to get to work, while only 5% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport for their daily commute.
5.0% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 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 completely unavailable here. There are no routes or stops in the area, leaving it far below the Tasmanian average for service access.
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.
The area is very isolated, with a typical drive time to the city of 210 minutes. This is among the highest travel times for similar areas.
210
Higher than 99% 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 Upper Natone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60708/upper-natone/topic/transport