Coomba Bay · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Coomba Bay

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

A shift toward working from home has shaped how people move in Coomba Bay. The area is almost entirely dependent on cars, with 23.2% of the workforce now operating from home. This reliance on private transport is stark, as there are no public transport stops or routes serving the area.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home in Coomba Bay has a car, with 30.4% owning two vehicles and 23.2% owning three. This means the 0.0% of homes without a motor vehicle is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 5.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Coomba Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 1 vehicle (30%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Half of the workforce drive themselves to work, while 23.2% work from home, which is a little above the national figure of 21.0%. No one in the area commutes by train or bus, leaving public transport use well below the Australian average.

23.2% ▲ +125.5%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.3%
  • 2016: 27.8%
  • 2021: 23.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Coomba Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 32%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is nonexistent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This leaves the area far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Coomba Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11037/coomba-bay/topic/transport