6.8% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coffs Harbour · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Coffs Harbour
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Coffs Harbour compared to the national figure, though this has risen to 9.9% since 2011. Most residents rely heavily on cars to get around, which is common for the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. In typical households, 40.9% have one vehicle and 36.2% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coffs Harbour splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has grown to 9.9%, but this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Most people commute by car, while only 0.6% use public transport, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
9.9% ▲ +281.9%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -66.7%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 0.6%
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/ucl/UCL111002/coffs-harbour/topic/transport