Clark (Elwick) · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Clark (Elwick)

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

More than 10% of households in Clark (Elwick) live without a motor vehicle, a figure well above the national average. This reliance on other options is supported by a high level of public transport access and a growing number of people using buses to get to work.

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📍 Clark (Elwick), State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

A total of 10.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and rose 3.1 percentage points since 2011. The most common setup is one vehicle per home, which applies to 39.9% of households.

10.4% ▲ +41.7%

Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 7.3%
  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 10.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Clark (Elwick), the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport use for work is 6.3%, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 2.5%. Meanwhile, only 5.5% of people work from home, a rate far below the 21.0% seen across Australia.

5.5% ▲ +228.0%

Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 5.5%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

6.3% ▲ +62.5%

Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 4.1%
  • 2021: 6.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Clark (Elwick), Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Car (passenger) is next at 9%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Access is strong with 7.73 stops per 1,000 people, among the highest at this level. This is reflected in the 1,263.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far above the state figure.

7.73

Higher than 95% 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).

1,263.1

Higher than 61% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Clark (Elwick) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60302/clark/topic/transport