6.8% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cobar · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Cobar
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people rely on public transport to get to work in Cobar than they did in 2011. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around, with 63.6% driving themselves to work each day. Only 8.7% of the workforce works from home, which is far below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 36.4% have two. About 6.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most areas, though this figure fell 1.4 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cobar splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is uncommon here at 8.7%, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 31%. Only 0.8% of people use public transport to get to work, which is a little below the national figure and down from 2.2% in 2011.
8.7% ▲ +39.8%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -63.8%
Lower than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Public transport is very limited, with only 8 stops and 6 routes available. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 11.3, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 1,313.6.
8
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.97
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
11.3
Lower than 69% of council (lga) 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).
6
Lower than 52% of council (lga) 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cobar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11750/cobar/topic/transport