1.7% ▼ -57.2%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lyons (Rumney) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Lyons (Rumney)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 70% of workers in Lyons (Rumney) drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on private cars. Only 1.7% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Tasmania and Australia. This makes the area one of the most vehicle-dependent communities in the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 40.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 11.3% owning four or more. The proportion of households without a car has fallen to just 1.7%, a figure well below the national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lyons (Rumney), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is dominated by the car, while only 1.3% of people use public transport, which is a little below the state and national figures. Working from home is also less common than across Australia, with only 8.1% of the workforce doing so.
8.1% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 75% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▲ +133.4%
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport options are limited, with 14 bus routes serving the area. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 446.1, which is far below the Tasmanian figure of 767.0.
45
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.50
Lower than 52% 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).
446.1
Lower than 72% 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 (Rumney) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60514/lyons/topic/transport