6.6% ▼ -51.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Smithton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Smithton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.3% of workers in Smithton work from home, a figure far below the national average. This means the vast majority of the local workforce relies on physical travel to get to their jobs each day.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 37.1% owning two and 12.2% owning three. While 6.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, this is a big drop from 13.5% back in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Smithton splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 71.6% of people acting as the driver. Very few people use public transport at 0.3%, and the number of people working from home has fallen since 2011.
3.3% ▼ -39.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -54.8%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Smithton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615023/smithton/topic/transport