4.8% ▼ -31.5%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Low Head · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Low Head
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Low Head than in most of Australia. The area relies heavily on private cars, with 38.2% of households owning two vehicles and 11% of the workforce now working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 4.8% having no vehicle. This is a little below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%, and the proportion has fallen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Low Head splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody in Low Head uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Working from home has become more common, rising to 11% since 2011, which is well above the state average of 8%.
11.0% ▲ +301.8%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 11.0%
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: 1.0%
- 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 Low Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621017/low-head/topic/transport