0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Liffey · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Liffey
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Liffey owns a car, making it more reliant on private vehicles than most similar areas. This dependence is clear as the typical household owns multiple vehicles, while public transport is completely absent from the local landscape.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Liffey lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are heavily equipped, with 85.2% owning three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Liffey splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (33%), with 4 or more at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 67.9% of residents. While 12.3% work from home—which is well above the Tasmanian figure—no one in the area commutes using public transport.
12.3% ▼ -17.9%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 12.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Liffey. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the state average.
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 into the city is a significant journey for locals, with a typical drive time of 144 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.
144
Higher than 89% 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 Liffey
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Liffey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60338/liffey/topic/transport