8.6% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Upper Stowport · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Stowport
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 31% of homes in Upper Stowport have four or more motor vehicles, the biggest vehicle category for the area. Residents rely heavily on private cars to get around, as there is no local public transport available. This makes the area very car-dependent for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
While many homes have several cars, 8.6% of households have no motor vehicle at all. This is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Upper Stowport splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (32%) and 1 vehicle (29%), with 2 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, and only 10.7% of people work from home. This is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%, with 66.1% of workers driving themselves to work.
10.7% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 10.7%
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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This puts Upper Stowport far below the Tasmanian average for stops and 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.
Driving to the city takes 203 minutes, which is among the highest travel times for areas at this level.
203
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).
More for Upper Stowport
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Upper Stowport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60710/upper-stowport/topic/transport