6.1% ▼ -25.0%
Higher than 59% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cowper · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Cowper
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 65% of workers in Cowper drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the area has very low rates of public transport use and working from home compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, and only 6.1% of homes have no motor vehicle. This figure is a little below the national average and has fallen by 2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cowper splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 11.7% since 2016, but this is still far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.4%.
11.7% —
Lower than 65% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% —
Lower than 92% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
The area has 77 public transport routes and 788 stops, though the bus is almost the only option. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average, at 393.8.
788
Higher than 50% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.63
Lower than 52% of federal electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
393.8
Lower than 80% of federal electorate 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).
77
Higher than 77% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cowper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED110/cowper/topic/transport