6.6% ▼ -46.9%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tumut · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Tumut
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher rates of public transport use and car-free homes than similar areas mark the transport landscape in Tumut. While most residents rely on cars, the town has seen a steady increase in people getting around without a vehicle. Only 6.6% of households currently have no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 75% of households own one or two cars, while 18% have three or more. The number of homes without a vehicle has fallen significantly since 2011, dropping from 12.5% to 6.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tumut splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the primary way to get to work, with 70.1% of people driving. Very few residents work from home at 4.9%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.9% ▲ +164.0%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▲ +61.9%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tumut [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114033/tumut/topic/transport