Irishtown · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Irishtown

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Zero people use public transport to get to work in Irishtown, marking a sharp contrast to the rest of the state. This is a place where almost every household owns a car, with most residents relying on their own vehicles to get around.

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📍 Irishtown, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles, while 12.3% have four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.9%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Irishtown, 2 vehicles is the majority at 51%; 1 vehicle is next at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 70.6% as the driver. While 11.7% work from home—which is well above the Tasmania figure of 8.0%—this is well below the 21.0% seen across Australia.

11.7% ▲ +43.8%

Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 8.7%
  • 2021: 11.7%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Irishtown, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

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. Consequently, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure of 767.

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Irishtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60289/irishtown/topic/transport