6.1% ▼ -25.2%
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tasmania · State / Territory
Transport & Vehicles in Tasmania
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 64% of working Tasmanians drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars across the state. While the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen to 6.1%, very few people use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 35.9% having two and 35.2% having one. Only 6.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Australian figure and is 2 percentage points lower than in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tasmania splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 8% doing so. Only 2.5% of people commute via public transport, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas and has barely changed since 2011.
8.0% ▲ +78.6%
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▼ -3.2%
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
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.
Tasmania has among the highest number of public transport stops per 1,000 people at 6.13. The network consists of 197 routes and 3,416 stops, all of which are bus services.
3,416
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.13
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
767.0
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).
197
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 Tasmania [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/6/tasmania/topic/transport