Cooroy Mountain · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cooroy Mountain

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

A reliance on private cars remains the defining feature of Cooroy Mountain, where every single home owns at least one vehicle. This is a place where working from home is far more common than in the rest of the state, with over a quarter of workers skipping the commute entirely.

Open map →
📍 Cooroy Mountain, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area has a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Over half of all homes own two vehicles, while 14% have four or more.

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

View on map →

In Cooroy Mountain, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here at 25.7%, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. No one uses public transport to get to work, with most people driving or working from home.

25.7%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 17.0%
  • 2021: 25.7%

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

View on map →

In Cooroy Mountain, Car (driver) is the majority at 63%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is completely absent in this area, with no stops or routes available. This puts the area far below the Queensland average for transport access.

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 around is a challenge for those without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 58 minutes. The drive time to the city is also high at 91 minutes.

58

Higher than 84% 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.

91

Higher than 63% 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 Cooroy Mountain

Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cooroy Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30706/cooroy-mountain/topic/transport