Upper Woodstock · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Upper Woodstock

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every household in Upper Woodstock owns a car, a rate well above both the Tasmanian and national figures. This heavy reliance on private vehicles is the defining feature of the area's transport landscape. With no local public transport available, residents depend entirely on their own cars to get around.

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📍 Upper Woodstock, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle. Most households are well-equipped, with 43.5% owning two cars and another 43.5% owning three or more.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Upper Woodstock, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The vast majority of workers drive themselves to work (77.1%), while 11.4% work from home. This work-from-home rate is well above the Tasmanian figure, though well below the national average.

11.4%

Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 11.4%

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.

How people get to work

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In Upper Woodstock, Car (driver) is the majority at 87%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is completely absent here, with zero routes or stops. This puts the area far below the Tasmanian average for transit access.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 43 minutes to drive from Upper Woodstock to the city, which is lower than the drive time for most similar areas.

43

Lower than 66% 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 Woodstock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60711/upper-woodstock/topic/transport