1.2% ▼ -70.8%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Howden · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Howden
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Howden has a car, making it stand out compared to most similar areas. Only 1.2% of households are without a motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The area is heavily reliant on cars, with 82.8% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This is well below the Tasmania figure of 6.1% for homes with no vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Howden, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 4 or more (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 12.7% of workers doing so. While 68.3% of people drive to work, public transport use has risen since 2011 to reach 2.3%.
12.7% ▲ +236.2%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.3% ▲ —
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Howden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621016/howden/topic/transport