Coonalpyn · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Coonalpyn

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

Walking and driving are the primary ways people get around Coonalpyn, where almost no one works from home. The area is heavily reliant on cars, though a small number of residents now use public transport for their daily commute.

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📍 Coonalpyn, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes in Coonalpyn have at least one car, with 38.9% having one and 36.7% having two. Only 5.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but slightly lower than the state and national figures.

5.6% ▲ +18.1%

Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 5.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Coonalpyn splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the most common way to get to work at 59.3%, though 16.9% of people walk. Public transport use has risen to 5.1% since 2011, which is a little above the national figure, while the share of people working from home has fallen to 0.0%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

5.1% ▲ —

Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 5.1%

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 Coonalpyn, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Walked is next at 21%.

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 Coonalpyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422018/coonalpyn/topic/transport