6.2% ▼ -25.2%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Braddon (Mersey) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Braddon (Mersey)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are the primary way people get around Braddon (Mersey), with 71.4% of workers driving to their jobs. Public transport plays a very small role in daily life here, and the area has far fewer service departures than the state average. Most households rely on their own vehicles for almost every trip.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 93.8% of homes own at least one motor vehicle, and the number of car-free households fell by 2.1 percentage points since 2011. The typical home has one or two vehicles, while 7.9% of households have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Braddon (Mersey) splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.8% of workers use public transport to get to work, which is much lower than most other areas. Working from home is also rare at 5.5%, a figure that is far below the national average of 21%.
5.5% ▲ +62.6%
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▲ +15.1%
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Public transport access is limited, with 4.41 stops per 1,000 people, which is well below the Tasmanian figure. Weekly departures are also far below the state average, and all available services are buses.
170
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.41
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
405.6
Lower than 74% of state electorate 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).
13
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Braddon (Mersey) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60207/braddon/topic/transport