8.1% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Burnie - Somerset · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Burnie - Somerset
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are the main way people get around Burnie - Somerset, where 70.5% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While most homes have at least one car, the area has a higher rate of car-less households than most other similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Tasmanian figure. The most common setup is one car per home, found in 40.1% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Burnie - Somerset, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, with only 0.8% taking a bus. Working from home is also rare at 4.8%, a figure that is far below the national average and much lower than most other areas.
4.8% ▲ +83.5%
Lower than 80% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -34.9%
Higher than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Burnie - Somerset [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/6001/burnie-somerset/topic/transport