7.4% ▲ +606.5%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cobar · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Cobar
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.2% of people work from home in Cobar, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages. This highlights a local workforce that almost entirely relies on physical workplaces. Most residents depend on private cars to get around and get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 38% of homes have one car and another 38% have two, though the number of households without a vehicle rose to 7.4% since 2011. This lack of a car is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cobar 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 68.2% of residents, while only 0.6% use public transport. The tiny proportion of people working from home is far below the New South Wales figure of 31%.
3.2% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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 Cobar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115039/cobar/topic/transport