Dunalley · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Dunalley

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

A total shift in car ownership has occurred in Dunalley, where the number of homes without a vehicle fell from 8.4% in 2011 to zero. Today, every single household in the area owns at least one motor vehicle. This makes the town much more reliant on cars than the typical Tasmanian or Australian community.

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📍 Dunalley, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 39.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 12.5% owning four or more. This explains why Dunalley has a much lower rate of vehicle-less homes than the state figure of 6.1%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.4%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Dunalley, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Private cars are the primary way to get to work, while no one uses public transport. About 7.3% of people work from home, which is roughly the same as the Tasmanian average but far below the national figure of 21%.

7.3% ▲ +62.1%

Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 7.3%

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: 2.2%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Dunalley, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Car (passenger) is next at 9%.

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 Dunalley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622006/dunalley/topic/transport