Tanunda · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Tanunda

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

Almost every home in Tanunda relies on a car for daily travel. This is a highly vehicle-dependent area where just 3.7% of households live without a motor vehicle, a figure well below both the state and national averages.

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📍 Tanunda, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least two cars, with 38.9% owning exactly two and 12.3% owning three. The number of car-free homes has fallen since 2011, leaving only 3.7% of households without a vehicle.

3.7% ▼ -40.0%

Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.1%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 3.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Tanunda splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get around, with 71.4% of workers commuting as the driver. While 9.4% of people now work from home—an increase of 5.3 points since 2011—public transport use remains very low at only 0.5%.

9.4% ▲ +125.4%

Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.2%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 9.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.5% ▼ -29.7%

Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.8%
  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Tanunda, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

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 Tanunda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415041/tanunda/topic/transport