1.5% ▼ -60.4%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Margate · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Margate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Margate relies on a car to get around. Very few residents get by without a vehicle, which is a much lower rate than seen across Tasmania and Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011. Most households own at least two cars, with 42.1% having two and another 24.4% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Margate, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way people get to work, with 66.8% as the driver. Working from home rose to 8.0% since 2011, while public transport use is among the highest for similar areas at 3.3%.
8.0% ▲ +162.4%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.3% ▲ +169.9%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Margate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615014/margate/topic/transport