7.7% ▼ -26.6%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Launceston · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Launceston
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 15 point gap separates Launceston from the national figure for working from home, where only 5.9% of people do so. Most residents rely on cars to get around, though a higher proportion of homes here have no motor vehicle compared to most other areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 7.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%. This is down from 10.4% in 2011, with 39% of households now owning a single vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Launceston splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 67.4% as the driver. Public transport use is much higher here than in most similar areas, though at 1.5% it remains a little below the national figure of 3.1%.
5.9% ▲ +109.2%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Launceston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL611001/launceston/topic/transport