7.4% ▼ -35.3%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cooktown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cooktown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one relies on public transport to get around Cooktown, where most daily travel depends on private cars. While the typical home has one or two vehicles, 7.4% of households have no motor vehicle at all, which is a little above the Queensland figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 41% having a single vehicle and 34.1% having two. However, the 7.4% of households without a car is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cooktown, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 60.3% of people, while 8.3% walk. Only 8.2% of the workforce works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
8.2% ▼ -0.3%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -78.3%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 effectively non-existent here, with no routes or stops serving the area. This is far below the Queensland average for transport access.
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).
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30675/cooktown/topic/transport