4.7% ▼ -52.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Westerway · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Westerway
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Westerway compared to the national figure, with only 6.2% doing so. This reliance on travel is clear in a place where almost every resident depends on a car to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 41.2% owning two and another 24.7% having three. Only 4.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Westerway, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 59.3% are drivers and 14.8% are passengers. No one uses public transport to commute, a figure well below the Australian average.
6.2% ▼ -9.0%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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 stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Tasmanian average.
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.
It takes about 67 minutes to drive from Westerway to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.
67
Lower than 52% 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 Westerway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60746/westerway/topic/transport