Cooroy · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Cooroy

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Working from home has jumped to 11.2% in Cooroy, reflecting a shift in how people get to work. Most residents rely on private cars to get around, though a small number of homes now live without any motor vehicle.

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📍 Cooroy, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 5.2% of homes in Cooroy have no motor vehicle, which is more than in most similar areas. This figure rose 1.8 percentage points since 2011, while 35.6% of households now keep two vehicles.

5.2% ▲ +53.5%

Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 5.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Cooroy splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Private cars are the main way to travel, with 66.3% of people driving to work. While 11.2% of the workforce now works from home—a rise of 7.7 percentage points since 2011—public transport use is very low at just 0.6%.

11.2% ▲ +217.3%

Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.5%
  • 2016: 4.5%
  • 2021: 11.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.6% ▼ -3.4%

Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Cooroy, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

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 Cooroy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315026/cooroy/topic/transport