6.2% ▼ -37.1%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ulverstone · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ulverstone
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.5% of workers in Ulverstone use public transport to get to their jobs. This highlights a heavy reliance on cars for daily travel, though the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Ulverstone have one or two cars, and 6.2% of households have no motor vehicle. This is higher than most similar areas, though the figure is about the same as the Tasmania average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ulverstone splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the primary way to get to work, with 71.9% of people driving themselves. Those working from home make up 5.4% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
5.4% ▲ +156.2%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -64.3%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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/ucl/UCL613001/ulverstone/topic/transport