2.4% —
Lower than 92% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Franklin (Huon) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Franklin (Huon)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained a necessity for the vast majority of people in Franklin (Huon), where only 2.4% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This reliance on private cars is mirrored in the way people travel to work and the limited frequency of local public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households get by without a car, a rate well below both the Tasmanian and national figures. Most homes have at least two vehicles, with 41.1% owning two and 16.6% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Franklin (Huon), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.8% of residents. While 12.4% of people work from home—which is well above the state average—only 1.7% use public transport for their daily commute.
12.4% —
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.7% —
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
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 options are limited, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the state figure. There are 175 stops across 27 bus routes, but the overall service frequency is much lower than in most similar areas.
175
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.
4.83
Higher than 55% 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).
329.7
Lower than 78% 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).
27
Higher than 51% 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 Franklin (Huon) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60404/franklin/topic/transport