2.2% ▲ +110.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lachlan · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lachlan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 39% of homes in Lachlan have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people get around. The area is heavily dependent on private transport, with almost no one using public transit to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 20.2% owning four or more. Only 2.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lachlan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work relies almost entirely on cars, as 70.8% of people drive. Very few people work from home at 5.7%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
5.7% ▼ -2.6%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes available in the area. This leaves Lachlan far below the Tasmanian average for service frequency.
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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes 81 minutes, which is among the highest times for similar areas. The drive time to the city is 33 minutes.
81
Higher than 97% 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.
33
Lower than 71% 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 Lachlan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60310/lachlan/topic/transport