5.5% ▼ -26.4%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Clarence · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Clarence
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people are without a car in Clarence than they were in 2011, while more residents now work from home. This area is heavily reliant on vehicles, though it has a higher rate of public transport use for work than the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one vehicle, and 38.1% have two. Only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a 2.0 percentage point drop since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Clarence splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 64.6% of residents. While 4.5% use public transport—a figure a little above the national average—only 8.1% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
8.1% ▲ +145.4%
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.5% ▼ -16.3%
Higher than 85% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.5%
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.
Clarence has very strong transit access, with 639 stops and 39 routes. This means there are far more stops per 1,000 people than the Tasmanian average, and weekly departures are well above the state figure.
639
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
10.39
Higher than 99% 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).
1,217.4
Higher than 83% 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).
39
Higher than 83% 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 typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes 25 minutes. The usual drive time to the city is 36 minutes, both of which are around the middle for similar areas.
25
Higher than 59% 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.
36
Lower than 59% 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 Clarence
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Clarence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA61410/clarence/topic/transport