0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Leith · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Leith
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single household in Leith now has at least one motor vehicle, marking a shift toward total car reliance. This makes the area much more vehicle-dependent than the rest of Tasmania or Australia, with the vast majority of residents using cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as 0% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own multiple cars, with 51.2% having two and 18% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Leith, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 3 vehicles (18%) and 1 vehicle (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 68.8% of people as the driver. While 11.5% work from home—a figure well above the Tasmanian average—no one in the area commutes using public transport.
11.5% ▲ +47.6%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
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: 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.
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 Leith. This puts the area far below the Tasmanian average for transit 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 around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 43 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is also among the highest for similar places at 178 minutes.
43
Higher than 75% 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.
178
Higher than 95% 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).
More for Leith
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Leith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60329/leith/topic/transport