7.5% ▼ -33.6%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cooma · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Cooma
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 63% of people in Cooma drive themselves to work, reflecting a high reliance on cars for daily travel. While most homes own at least one vehicle, public transport is rarely used for commuting. This reliance on private transport is a core feature of how people move around the town.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have one or two cars, though 7.5% of Cooma homes have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas, even though the figure fell 3.8 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cooma, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.5% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the national figure. Meanwhile, 8.6% of people work from home; while this rose 5.6 percentage points since 2011, it remains far below the New South Wales rate of 31%.
8.6% ▲ +184.1%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Cooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114004/cooma/topic/transport