0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forth · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Forth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Forth (L) is without a motor vehicle, a figure that sits well below both the Tasmanian and national averages. This total reliance on cars defines how people move around the area. Most residents depend on their own vehicles for daily travel and getting to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 39.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 12.8% owning four or more. The proportion of homes with no vehicle fell from 2.4% in 2011 to 0.0% in 2021.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Forth, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 74.9% of residents, while 0.0% use public transport, which is a little below the Tasmanian figure. Only 5.6% of people work from home, a rate far below the national average of 21.0%.
5.6% ▲ +31.7%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 5.6%
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: 2.1%
- 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.
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 Forth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622009/forth/topic/transport