12.0% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Howth · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Howth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of the workforce in Howth relies on driving themselves to work. This reflects a highly car-dependent area where public transport is almost non-existent. While 12% of residents work from home, the vast majority must travel by road to reach their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The most common motor vehicles per home is 4 or more at 63%, ahead of 1 vehicle (16%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Howth, 4 or more is the majority at 67%; 1 vehicle is next at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost nobody uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. While 12% of people work from home, this is still well below the Australian average of 21%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts Howth far below the Tasmanian average for service access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city takes a very long time, with a drive time of 190 minutes. This isolation is further shown by the 22-minute walk required to reach the nearest transport stop.
22
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality 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.
190
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Howth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60282/howth/topic/transport