13.6% ▲ +18.4%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cook · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Cook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of the workforce in Cook drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes have at least one vehicle, a surprising 13.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 13.6% of homes in Cook have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well above both the state and national levels and has risen since 2011. For those who do own cars, 36.4% have one vehicle and 32.2% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cook splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with No vehicle at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 1.8% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has fallen 14 points since 2011. Working from home is also far less common here than across Australia, with only 7.7% of people doing so.
7.7% ▲ +78.9%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▼ -88.4%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 almost non-existent in Cook, with no routes, stops, or departures recorded. This puts the area far below the Queensland average for transport access.
0
Lower than 99% of state electorate 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 state electorate 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 state electorate 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 state electorate 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 Cook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30021/cook/topic/transport