3.5% ▼ -37.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tanunda · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tanunda
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just 3.5% of households in Tanunda have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This means almost every home relies on cars to get around, with 71.1% of workers driving themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 39.4% owning two and 12.9% owning three. Only a small number of households lack a vehicle, which is much lower than the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tanunda splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here at 9.5% compared to the national figure of 21.0%. Very few people use public transport to commute, at just 0.5%, which is well below the state average.
9.5% ▲ +73.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -43.9%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
The area has 12 stops and 15 routes, making it larger than about 83% of similar areas. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average, and all services are buses.
12
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.55
Higher than 68% 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).
84.5
Higher than 67% 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).
15
Higher than 86% 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.
Residents face a 49-minute drive to the city, which is lower than in most similar areas. A walk to the nearest public transport stop typically takes around 13 minutes.
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.
49
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Tanunda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41420/tanunda/topic/transport