Gum Scrub · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Gum Scrub

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

Not a single home in Gum Scrub is without a motor vehicle. This complete reliance on cars defines the area, as there are no public transport stops or routes available for residents to use.

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📍 Gum Scrub, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 67.5% of households owning three or more vehicles. This means the percentage of homes without a car is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Gum Scrub, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (30%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost everyone relies on a car to get to work, with 66.7% driving themselves. Only 10.6% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

10.6%

Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.3%
  • 2021: 10.6%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Gum Scrub, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent in Gum Scrub, with zero stops and zero routes. This leaves the area far below the state average for transport access.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Gum Scrub [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11803/gum-scrub/topic/transport