0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Opossum Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Opossum Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Opossum Bay than they were in 2011, a trend that now sees 15.6% of workers avoiding a daily trip. This shift happens in a place where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a vehicle—a figure well below the Tasmanian average of 6.1%. Nearly 40% of households have two cars, and about 19% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Opossum Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes via public transport, and 65.4% of workers drive themselves to work. The number of people working from home rose 6.6 points since 2011 to 15.6%, which is well above the state figure of 8.0%.
15.6% ▲ +73.6%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 15.6%
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: 3.6%
- 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 Opossum Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622019/opossum-bay/topic/transport