5.7% ▼ -34.6%
Lower than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coffs Harbour · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Coffs Harbour
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport or work from home in Coffs Harbour than in the wider state. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, with only 5.7% of homes having no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is common here, with 76% of households owning either one or two vehicles. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen by 3 percentage points since 2011 and is now well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coffs Harbour splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 66% of the workforce, while only 0.7% use public transport. Although 10.5% of people now work from home—an increase of 5.7 percentage points since 2011—this is still far below the national figure of 21%.
10.5% ▲ +118.9%
Higher than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1011/coffs-harbour/topic/transport