4.6% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Penguin · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Penguin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Penguin than across Australia, with only 5.6% doing so. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around the town and into work. This reliance on private transport is a key feature of the local travel patterns.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Penguin have one or two cars, and only 4.6% of households have no motor vehicle. This is a little below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia, and it has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Penguin splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 72.2% of people commuting as the driver. Only 0.9% use the bus, and the 5.6% who work from home is far below the national figure.
5.6% ▲ +112.8%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ +42.8%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Penguin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615016/penguin/topic/transport