Windermere · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Windermere

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

Almost every home in Windermere has a car, making it more vehicle-reliant than most similar areas. No household in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles, and a further 31.6% have three or more. This high car ownership is consistent with the fact that no homes in the area are without a vehicle.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Windermere, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most workers drive to their jobs, and 16.8% work from home, which is well above the Tasmania figure. No one uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national average.

16.8% ▲ +14.6%

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.7%
  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 16.8%

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.

How people get to work

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In Windermere, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

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 per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.

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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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around on foot is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes much longer than in most areas. The drive time to the city is also much higher than for most similar places.

51

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

135

Higher than 87% 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 Windermere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60758/windermere/topic/transport