2.9% ▼ -58.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tocumwal · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tocumwal
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people here rely on cars than in most similar areas, with Tocumwal showing a very high rate of vehicle ownership. Very few residents have no motor vehicle, and almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.9% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 39.9% owning two vehicles and another 20.8% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tocumwal splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, and only 11.2% work from home, which is far below the state figure of 31%. Instead, 67% of workers rely on driving themselves to get to their jobs.
11.2% ▲ +53.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 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.
Public transport is limited to three bus routes, with only 1.05 stops per 1,000 people. This is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.05
Higher than 61% 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).
14.0
Higher than 59% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tocumwal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13903/tocumwal/topic/transport