Tutunup · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Tutunup

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

Zero homes in Tutunup are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national rates. This reliance on private cars is a necessity in a rural area where public transport is entirely absent and the drive to the city takes 127 minutes.

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📍 Tutunup, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 66.7% of households owning three or more vehicles. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Tutunup splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 4 or more at 25%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most workers drive, though 19.6% work from home, which is far above the Western Australian figure. No one uses public transport to get to work, while 13% of workers walk.

19.6% ▲ +72.2%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.4%
  • 2016: 19.4%
  • 2021: 19.6%

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: 0.0%
  • 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 Tutunup, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per person are far below the state average.

0.00

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).

0.0

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city is a long journey, with a drive time of 127 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

127

Higher than 85% 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 Tutunup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51474/tutunup/topic/transport