5.3% —
Lower than 67% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rest of Tas. · Capital City
Transport & Vehicles in Rest of Tas.
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than two thirds of workers in Rest of Tas. drive themselves to work. This high reliance on cars is seen across the region, where only 0.9% of people use public transport to get to their jobs. While car ownership is very common, the area has far fewer transport services than the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 36.3% owning two and 14.8% owning three. Only 5.3% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that fell slightly since 2016 and is a little below the Australian average of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rest of Tas. splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is used by 7.9% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Only 0.9% of people commute by public transport, a rate that is much lower than most similar areas and has barely changed since 2016.
7.9% —
Lower than 70% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% —
Lower than 83% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 is exclusively bus-based, but service levels are low. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average, and the region has fewer public transport routes and stops than most similar areas.
1,488
Lower than 74% of capital city areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.81
Higher than 57% of capital city areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
426.4
Lower than 70% of capital city 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).
103
Lower than 70% of capital city 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 Rest of Tas. [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/gccsa/6RTAS/rest-of-tas/topic/transport