6.6% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brighton · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Brighton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Daily life in Brighton relies heavily on cars, with 71.1% of workers driving themselves to a job. While public transport options are plentiful on paper, the area remains far less flexible for remote work than the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 33.9% have two. The proportion of households without a motor vehicle is 6.6%, which is higher than most areas, though this figure fell 1.8 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Brighton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 4.6% of people work from home, a figure that is far below the national average. Very few residents use public transport for their commute, with only 2.0% doing so, a rate that has barely changed since 2011.
4.6% ▲ +82.9%
Lower than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
Brighton has a high number of bus stops and routes compared to similar areas. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are well above the Tasmanian figure, with 1,199.5 departures recorded.
142
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.48
Higher than 90% 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).
1,199.5
Higher than 82% 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).
10
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive to the city is relatively short at 25 minutes, which is lower than most areas. However, getting to the nearest stop on foot can take up to 60 minutes, which is much higher than in most other places.
60
Higher than 86% of council (lga) 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.
25
Lower than 67% of council (lga) 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).
More for Brighton
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Brighton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA60410/brighton/topic/transport