6.3% ▼ -23.3%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tumby Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Tumby Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around Tumby Bay, with 67.4% of workers commuting by car. Most homes here own one or two vehicles, and very few people rely on public transport or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39% of households have one car and 38.7% have two. Only 6.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is now about the same as the South Australian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tumby Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 6.3%. Public transport use is also very low at 0.7%, which is well below the state figure and has barely changed over the last decade.
6.3% ▲ +15.2%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -43.1%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Tumby Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415042/tumby-bay/topic/transport