9.2% ▲ +100.6%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
George Town · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in George Town
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More households in George Town live without a car than in most similar areas. While 41.2% of homes have one vehicle, the share of households with no motor vehicle has risen to 9.2%, which is well above the Tasmanian figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly one in ten homes here have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than in most areas and has nearly doubled since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In George Town, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers rely on driving, with 69.8% as the main driver. Very few people use public transport to get to work (0.5%), and those working from home (5.0%) are far below the national figure.
5.0% ▲ +35.5%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -79.1%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 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 George Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615008/george-town/topic/transport