4.6% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cobden · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cobden
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 130-minute drive to the city makes Cobden a remote area where residents rely heavily on their own cars. Most homes own multiple vehicles, and almost no one uses public transport to get to work. This dependence on private cars is reflected in the very low number of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Cobden has a car, with 36% owning two vehicles and 16.4% owning three. Only 4.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cobden splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 68.8% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 7.9%, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%, and no one commutes using public transport.
7.9% ▲ +19.4%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
Public transport is limited to a single bus route with five stops. While this is more than many similar areas, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.77
Higher than 68% 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).
46.6
Higher than 62% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
It takes a typical resident 130 minutes to drive to the city, which is much higher than most areas. The walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 8 minutes, which is around the middle for its level.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
130
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Cobden
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cobden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20591/cobden/topic/transport