4.1% ▲ +211.0%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coolamon · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Coolamon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Coolamon, where very few people rely on public transport. Most households own multiple vehicles, and only 4.1% of homes have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Two vehicles are the most common choice for 37.6% of homes, while 23.6% of households have three or more. The proportion of homes without a car is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, though it has risen slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coolamon splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 71.4% of people as the driver. Working from home rose to 7.6% since 2011, but this remains far below the national figure of 21.0%.
7.6% ▲ +101.3%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -38.8%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Coolamon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115042/coolamon/topic/transport