2.8% ▼ -69.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coobowie · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Coobowie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Coobowie relies on a private car to get around. While the area has a high number of bus stops for its size, very few people actually use them for work, with 61.6% of workers driving themselves.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households go without a car here, at just 2.8%. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most homes have one or two vehicles, though 14.7% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Coobowie, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the South Australian average of 4.1%. About 15.1% of workers operate from home, a figure well above the state average.
15.1% ▲ +86.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 15.1%
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: 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Coobowie has 15.5 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, weekly bus departures are far below the state figure, meaning service is infrequent.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
15.50
Higher than 90% 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).
23.3
Higher than 60% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
Getting to a stop is a challenge in this area, as it takes a typical resident 26 minutes to walk to the nearest one.
26
Higher than 63% 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.
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 Coobowie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40296/coobowie/topic/transport