1.3% ▼ -43.9%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dover · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Dover
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of working residents in Dover drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way people get around. The area is heavily reliant on private transport, with almost every home owning at least one vehicle. While working from home has become more common, public transport is not used at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.3% of homes in Dover have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%. Most households are well-equipped, with 37.7% owning one vehicle and 34.5% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dover splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Dover uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. However, 13.1% of people now work from home, a figure that is well above the state average and has risen since 2011.
13.1% ▲ +162.1%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Dover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621010/dover/topic/transport