5.4% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 64% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ulverstone · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Ulverstone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 6.4% of people in Ulverstone work from home, a figure that is far below the national average. This highlights a town where most residents still travel to a physical workplace, relying heavily on their own cars to get there.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 36.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 13.4% owning three. Only 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ulverstone splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 70.8% of people commuting as a driver. Public transport use is very low at 0.5%, which is a little below both state and national levels.
6.4% ▲ +65.6%
Lower than 65% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -31.5%
Lower than 55% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
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 Ulverstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/6005/ulverstone/topic/transport