7.9% ▲ +54.7%
Higher than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lyons (Derwent) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Lyons (Derwent)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A growing number of households in Lyons now live without a car, with this figure rising to 7.9% since 2011. While more people use public transport to get to work than a decade ago, the area remains heavily reliant on private vehicles for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%. For those with cars, 32.5% of homes have two vehicles, and 16.2% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lyons (Derwent) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 69% as the driver. Very few people work from home at 5.8%, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 21% and has fallen since 2011.
5.8% ▼ -39.5%
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▲ +281.2%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 is provided entirely by buses, with 128 stops across the area. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 1,011.3, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 767.0.
128
Lower than 80% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.78
Higher than 74% 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).
1,011.3
Higher than 50% 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).
14
Lower than 79% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lyons (Derwent) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60501/lyons/topic/transport