2.0% ▼ -85.4%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Sorell · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Port Sorell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Port Sorell, where almost every household owns at least one vehicle. The area is heavily reliant on road travel for getting around and reaching employment.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the Tasmanian average and has fallen 12 points since 2011. Most households have two cars, while 38.7% have just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Port Sorell splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel dominates the morning rush, with 72% of people driving to work. While 7.4% of residents now work from home, the number of people using public transport is very low at just 0.5%.
7.4% ▲ +229.1%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 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 Port Sorell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615018/port-sorell/topic/transport