Cooma · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cooma

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

Not a single home in Cooma (Vic.) is without a motor vehicle. This makes the area far more reliant on cars than the typical Victorian or Australian household, with almost no one using public transport for their daily commute.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 51.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 19.4% owning three. This explains why the 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the national and state figures.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Cooma, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 3 vehicles is next at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 56.9% of residents. Meanwhile, 15.7% work from home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

15.7%

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 6.0%
  • 2021: 15.7%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Cooma, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero routes and zero stops. This puts the local service level far below the Victorian average.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city is a long journey, with a drive time of 130 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20625/cooma/topic/transport