5.5% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cowes · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Cowes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A small fraction of Cowes residents use public transport to get to work, sitting well below the state and national figures. Most people here rely on private cars or work from home. This shift is clear in the data, with home-based work rising by 14 percentage points since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common in Cowes, with 81.8% of homes owning one or two vehicles. Only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cowes, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much more common here than in most similar areas, though at 18% it remains well below the Victorian figure. Meanwhile, public transport use has fallen to just 0.2%, leaving the car as the primary way to travel, with 54.1% of workers driving.
18.0% ▲ +346.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -93.6%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Cowes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214006/cowes/topic/transport