7.6% ▼ -23.3%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sheffield · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Sheffield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Sheffield have no motor vehicle compared to most similar areas. While most households rely on cars, 7.6% of the community does not have a vehicle, though this is lower than it was in 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 40% of homes have one car and 31% have two. The number of households without a vehicle is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sheffield, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 65.6% of people. Working from home rose to 8.1% since 2011, which is about the same as the state figure but far below the 21% national average, and no one uses public transport.
8.1% ▲ +139.8%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Sheffield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615022/sheffield/topic/transport