Coowonga · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Coowonga

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

Transport patterns in Coowonga have remained steady, with a heavy reliance on private cars for almost every trip. Very few people work from home or use public transit, as the area lacks any formal transport infrastructure.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have multiple cars, with 43.2% owning two vehicles. Only 3.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

3.2% ▼ -28.9%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Coowonga, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (19%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 60.4% of people driving and another 9.9% travelling as passengers. Working from home is far below the national figure, at just 7.2%.

7.2% ▲ +26.6%

Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.7%
  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 7.2%

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: 3.0%
  • 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 Coowonga, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Car (passenger) is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Coowonga. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average of 720.7.

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Coowonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30711/coowonga/topic/transport