1.4% ▲ +0.6%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Fern Tree · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Fern Tree
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the workforce in Fern Tree (L) drive themselves to work. This is a highly car-reliant area where almost every home owns a motor vehicle, though more people have started working from home since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households lack a car, with only 1.4% having none, a figure well below the Tasmanian average of 6.1%. Most homes are well-equipped, as 51.2% have two vehicles and 14.7% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fern Tree, 2 vehicles is the majority at 51%; 1 vehicle is next at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has jumped to 16.1%, which is well above the state figure. Public transport use has also risen to 4.6%, which is a little above the national average and among the highest for similar areas.
16.1% ▲ +177.3%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.6% ▲ +99.6%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 Fern Tree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621012/fern-tree/topic/transport