8.4% ▼ -32.3%
Higher than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coonamble · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Coonamble
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer than 1 in 1,000 people in Coonamble use public transport to get to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. Most residents depend on private vehicles for travel, while very few work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 68% of homes have two or more motor vehicles, and the 8.4% of households without a car is a figure that has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coonamble splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 63.2% of people. Only 12.6% work from home, which is well below the national figure of 21.0%.
12.6% ▼ -11.9%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -41.9%
Lower than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 two stops and three bus routes. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
2
Lower than 76% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.54
Lower than 78% 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).
7.5
Lower than 72% 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).
3
Lower than 62% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Coonamble [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA12150/coonamble/topic/transport