2.6% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tuross Head · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tuross Head
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap in public transport use separates Tuross Head from the rest of the state, where almost no one relies on transit to get to work. Most households here depend heavily on their own cars, with very few people working from home compared to the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Tuross Head has a car, and 40.7% of households own two vehicles. Only 2.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tuross Head splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (44%) and 2 vehicles (41%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost entirely done by car, as 0.0% of people use public transport. This is well below the national average, and only 13.1% of the workforce works from home, which is far below the state figure.
13.1% ▲ +121.7%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
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 options are very limited, with only one bus route and three stops serving the area. This results in weekly departures per 1,000 people that are far below the New South Wales average.
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.
1.27
Higher than 62% 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).
6.8
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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 13 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this size.
13
Higher than 50% 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 Tuross Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13997/tuross-head/topic/transport