1.5% ▼ -83.1%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Railton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Railton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Railton has a car, making private travel the backbone of daily life here. Only 1.5% of households live without a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 38% of homes keeping two vehicles and 12.3% having four or more. The number of homes without any vehicle has fallen sharply since 2011, dropping from 8.9% to just 1.5%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Railton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69.8% of people as the main driver. While 4.3% of people work from home—a figure far below the national average—the number of residents using public transport has risen slightly since 2011 to reach 1.2%.
4.3% ▲ +185.9%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▲ —
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Railton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621020/railton/topic/transport