0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cobains · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cobains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single home in Cobains has at least one car, making private vehicles essential for daily life. This reliance on cars is reflected in the fact that no one in the area uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are extremely common here, with 86.8% of households owning two or more vehicles. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cobains, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (30%) and 4 or more (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 60.9% of workers being the driver. While 16.5% of people work from home, this is well below the national figure of 21.0%.
16.5% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 16.5%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest transport stop is a significant trek, with the walk taking about 80 minutes. This is among the highest travel times for this level of area.
80
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Cobains
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cobains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20586/cobains/topic/transport