Cooltong · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cooltong

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

A near-universal reliance on cars defines Cooltong, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This makes the area stand out compared to the state and national figures, as not a single household lacks a vehicle.

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📍 Cooltong, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 36.2% owning two and 24.1% owning three. This high level of vehicle ownership is well below the 7.4% of Australian homes that have no motor vehicle.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.0%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Cooltong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (25%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 58.1% of residents, while 16.8% work from home. This work-from-home rate is well above the South Australian figure of 9.6%.

16.8% ▲ +53.6%

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.9%
  • 2016: 18.2%
  • 2021: 16.8%

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

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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.

How people get to work

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In Cooltong, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This lack of access is far below the South Australian average of 4.96 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cooltong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40299/cooltong/topic/transport