4.5% ▲ +177.7%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cowan · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Cowan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over a third of workers in Cowan (L) now work from home, a figure that has jumped 33 percentage points since 2011. This shift away from daily travel is a defining feature of the area, where most residents rely heavily on private cars for their remaining trips.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 4.5% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, and most households own at least two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cowan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 35.5% of people doing so—far above the Australian figure of 21.0%. While 39% of residents drive to work, only 1.6% use public transport, which is much higher than most similar areas.
35.5% ▲ +1214.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Cowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121025/cowan/topic/transport