5.4% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gunns Plains · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gunns Plains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 200-minute drive to the city makes Gunns Plains one of the most remote areas for commuters. In this rural landscape, cars are essential for daily life, and there is no public transport available to residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 31% of homes have three motor vehicles, and 13.5% have four or more. While 5.4% of households have no vehicle, this is about the same as the Tasmania figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gunns Plains splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (31%) and 1 vehicle (30%), with 2 vehicles at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 65.6% of workers drive and 18.9% work from home, a rate far above the state average.
18.9% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 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.
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 the number of weekly departures is far below the Tasmania figure.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 drive time to the city is 200 minutes, which is among the highest for areas at this level.
200
Higher than 99% 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 Gunns Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60256/gunns-plains/topic/transport