2.7% —
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lyons (Montgomery) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Lyons (Montgomery)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people in Lyons (Montgomery) go without a car compared to the rest of the state. Private vehicles are essential here, as the area has very limited public transport and a small number of people work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has a car, with only 2.7% of households owning none. This is well below the 6.1% seen across Tasmania, and most families have multiple vehicles, with 38.2% owning two and 18.9% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lyons (Montgomery), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 64.5% of residents. Only 0.3% use public transport, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas, while 10.5% work from home—a figure far below the national average.
10.5% —
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% —
Lower than 97% 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 is very sparse, with only one route and one stop serving the area. This means there are just 10 weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Tasmanian average of 767.
1
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.19
Lower than 99% 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).
10.0
Lower than 99% 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).
1
Lower than 99% 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 (Montgomery) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60508/lyons/topic/transport