8.1% ▲ +103.4%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oatlands · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Oatlands
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the workforce in Oatlands (L) drive themselves to work, with 58.6% using a car. While cars are common, a growing number of households now live without one. This trend is reflected in the fact that 8.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39% of households have one car, while 30.6% have two. The share of homes without any vehicle has risen to 8.1% since 2011, a figure that is a little above the Tasmanian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Oatlands, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has grown to 7.9% since 2011, though this remains far below the national figure. Very few people use public transport to get to work, with only 1.5% taking a bus, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
7.9% ▲ +130.0%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -32.2%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Oatlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621018/oatlands/topic/transport