4.0% ▼ -45.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tumbarumba · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tumbarumba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero percent of people in Tumbarumba use public transport to get to work. In this regional area, cars are essential for almost everyone, and very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 39.8% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tumbarumba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 66.4% as the driver. Only 6.6% of the workforce works from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
6.6% ▲ +104.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 6.6%
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: 0.4%
- 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 buses, and the area has only one stop and four routes. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.52
Higher than 59% 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).
6.3
Higher than 58% 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).
4
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a transport stop is difficult, as the typical walk takes 80 minutes. This is among the highest times recorded for areas of this type.
80
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tumbarumba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13979/tumbarumba/topic/transport