0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
South Arm · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in South Arm (L) than in 2011, while car ownership has become universal. Every single home here now has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on private transport for daily travel.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in South Arm (L) is without a car, a figure well below the Tasmanian average of 6.1%. Most households own multiple vehicles, with 43.6% having two and another 15.8% owning three.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In South Arm, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
How people travel to work.
Nobody uses public transport to get to work here, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 67.7% of workers drive themselves, while 10.2% work from home, a figure that is a little above the state average.
10.2% ▲ +68.3%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in South Arm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621025/south-arm/topic/transport