Coen · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Coen

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

Walking is the most common way to get to work in Coen, where 43.8% of workers make the trip on foot. This local preference for walking sits alongside a high number of homes without cars, though this trend has dipped slightly since 2011.

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📍 Coen, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About one in three homes (33.3%) in Coen have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the Queensland rate of 5.8%. While 37.7% of households have one car, 18.8% own two.

33.3% ▼ -11.1%

Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 37.5%
  • 2016: 11.1%
  • 2021: 33.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Coen splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and No vehicle (33%), with 2 vehicles at 19%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here uses public transport to get to work, and only 5.4% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Aside from those who walk, the most common way to commute is by car, with 25.9% driving themselves.

5.4% ▼ -47.5%

Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 10.2%
  • 2016: 12.3%
  • 2021: 5.4%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Coen, Walked is the majority at 51%; Car (driver) is next at 30%.

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 Coen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322029/coen/topic/transport