2.4% ▼ -63.7%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Richmond · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Richmond
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Richmond (L) (Tas.) go without a car, as only 2.4% of homes have no motor vehicle. This makes the area much more reliant on private transport than the rest of the state. Most households own at least two cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The number of car-free homes has dropped significantly since 2011, falling to just 2.4%, which is well below the national figure. This trend is reflected in the local fleet, with 41.8% of homes owning two vehicles and 24% having three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Richmond, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has grown sharply since 2011 to reach 11.5%, a figure well above the Tasmanian average. Despite this, the vast majority of the workforce still drives, with 65.1% of people commuting by car as the driver.
11.5% ▲ +311.5%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -44.9%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 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 Richmond [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621022/richmond/topic/transport