0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gum Flat · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gum Flat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars have remained the essential way to get around Gum Flat, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is much more common here than across New South Wales and Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Gum Flat has a car, which is well below the state and national figures for households without a vehicle. Most families have multiple cars, with 78.8% of homes owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gum Flat splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (36%), with 4 or more at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 60.9% of residents, while 22.7% work from home. This working-from-home rate is a little above the Australian figure, but well below the New South Wales average.
22.7% ▲ +35.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Gum Flat. This means access to services is far below the New South Wales average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Gum Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11802/gum-flat/topic/transport