5.4% ▼ -34.6%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coffs Harbour · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Coffs Harbour
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer households without cars are common in Coffs Harbour now than in 2011, reflecting a growing reliance on private transport. While the area has a high number of transit stops and routes, very few people actually use them to get to work. Most residents rely on cars for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 5.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households own one or two cars, and the share of car-less homes has fallen by 2.9 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coffs Harbour splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 10.7% of people doing so. Very few residents use public transport to commute, at just 0.7%, while 66% of workers drive themselves to work.
10.7% ▲ +110.3%
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +3.9%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Coffs Harbour has 309 public transport stops and 37 routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of stops per 1,000 people is well below the state average, and the service is almost entirely buses.
309
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.92
Higher than 57% 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).
433.9
Higher than 71% 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).
37
Higher than 82% 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 Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11800/coffs-harbour/topic/transport