4.1% ▲ +61.9%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coobowie · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 65% of people in Coobowie drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. This is a community where very few people work from home or use public transport, making private vehicles essential for daily life.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, and only 4.1% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the state and national figures, though the number of car-less homes has risen slightly since 2011.
4.1% ▲ +61.9%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Coobowie, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 49%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below both the state and national averages. While 6.8% of people work from home—an increase since 2011—this remains far below the Australian figure of 21%.
6.8% ▲ +84.9%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Coobowie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422017/coobowie/topic/transport