0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
York Plains · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in York Plains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A total reliance on private cars defines daily life in York Plains, where no one without a vehicle is recorded. The area is far more likely to have workers staying at home than in most other places, with 36.7% of the workforce doing so.
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 Tasmanian figure of 6.1%. Nearly half of all households have two vehicles, and about 15% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In York Plains, 2 vehicles is the majority at 57%; 4 or more is next at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common at 36.7%, a figure far above the national average of 21%. For those who do leave for work, 70% drive themselves, while 0% use public transport.
36.7% ▲ +35.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 36.7%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This leaves the community far below the state 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.
The drive time to the city is typically 70 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
70
Higher than 50% 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 York Plains
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in York Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60773/york-plains/topic/transport