9.3% ▲ +54.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cooktown · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Cooktown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more households in Cooktown live without a car compared to the rest of the country. While 46% of homes have one vehicle, 9.3% of residents have no motor vehicle at all, a figure that has risen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly one in ten homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. About 31% of households own two cars, while 10.4% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cooktown, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, though walking is a common choice for 11.1% of the workforce. Only 6.4% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%, and public transport use has fallen to just 0.6%.
6.4% ▲ +363.6%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -83.9%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 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 Cooktown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315024/cooktown/topic/transport