0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Upper Scamander · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Scamander
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 43% of households in Upper Scamander have four or more motor vehicles, making cars a central part of life here. Every single home in the area owns at least one vehicle, which is far more common than in the typical Tasmanian or Australian household.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common, with 42.3% of homes owning four or more vehicles and 34.6% having two. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Upper Scamander, the largest group is 4 or more at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work (76.9%) or walk (19.2%), while 11.5% work from home. This rate of working from home is well above the state figure, though well below the national average.
11.5% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Tasmanian figure.
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).
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)).
More for Upper Scamander
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Upper Scamander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60709/upper-scamander/topic/transport