4.6% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 64% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tumut - Tumbarumba · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Tumut - Tumbarumba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just 6.0 weekly public transport departures per 1,000 people occur in Tumut - Tumbarumba, a figure far below the New South Wales average. This reliance on private travel is clear, with the vast majority of homes owning multiple cars. Very few residents use public transit or work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, with 37.1% of homes having two vehicles and 24.6% owning three or more. Only 4.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tumut - Tumbarumba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, and only 0.3% use public transport, a rate that has barely changed since 2011. Those working from home make up 10.7% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
10.7% ▲ +34.4%
Lower than 69% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 91% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is very limited, with only 6 routes and 9 stops across the area. There are 0.60 stops per 1,000 people, which is far below the state average of 5.27, and all available services are buses.
9
Lower than 97% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.60
Lower than 96% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
6.0
Lower than 98% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
6
Lower than 88% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tumut - Tumbarumba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11302/tumut-tumbarumba/topic/transport