White Beach · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in White Beach

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

Not a single home in White Beach is without a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the national average. This reliance on private transport shapes how people move, with very few residents using public transit for their daily commute.

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📍 White Beach, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has at least one vehicle, a figure well below the 6.1% of Tasmanian households without a car. Most homes have one or two vehicles, though 16.4% of households own three or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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White Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 61.5% of residents, while 11.5% work from home, which is well above the state figure. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.

11.5% ▲ +12.8%

Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 10.2%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 11.5%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 White Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

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 White Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622027/white-beach/topic/transport