8.5% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bass (Windermere) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Bass (Windermere)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A heavy reliance on cars defines daily life in Bass (Windermere), where 68.5% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While the area has 201 public transport stops, very few people use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.5% of homes in Bass (Windermere) have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, this is down 4.4 percentage points since 2011, and most households now own at least one or two cars.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bass (Windermere) splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 5.6% of people doing so. Public transport use for commuting is also low at 1.8%, which is about the same as the Tasmania figure.
5.6% ▲ +117.5%
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.8%
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.
Public transport options are limited to buses, with 657.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people. This is lower than most areas and a little below the Tasmania figure of 767.0.
201
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.00
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
657.8
Lower than 64% of state electorate 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).
19
Lower than 70% of state electorate 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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bass (Windermere) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60115/bass/topic/transport