4.5% ▼ -36.8%
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Break O'Day · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Break O'Day
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap in public transport separates Break O'Day from the rest of Tasmania, with very few residents relying on anything other than a car. Most households here are well-equipped for travel, and the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen to just 4.5%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common in Break O'Day, where 36.8% of homes have two vehicles and 14.7% have three. Only 4.5% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is a little below the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Break O'Day splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 60.7% of residents, while only 0.1% use public transport. Working from home has risen to 11.7%, a figure that is well above the state average but well below the national one.
11.7% ▲ +58.8%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.1% ▼ -34.6%
Lower than 85% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.2%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.1%
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 very limited, with only 4 routes and 13 stops. With just 1.92 stops per 1,000 people, access is far below the Tasmanian average, and all available services are buses.
13
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.92
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
32.5
Lower than 56% of council (lga) 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).
4
Lower than 57% of council (lga) 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 Break O'Day [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA60210/break-o-day/topic/transport