7.4% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Albury · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Albury
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes without a car have been recorded in Albury since 2011, as the city becomes more reliant on private vehicles. While 7.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, the vast majority of residents depend on cars for their daily travel. This reliance is clear in the workforce, where over 70% of people drive themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 38.7% of homes have one vehicle and 36.9% have two. The 7.4% of households without a car is much higher than most similar areas, though this figure has fallen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Albury splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the state, with only 9.1% of people doing so. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.4%, which is a little below the national figure.
9.1% ▲ +204.5%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Albury has 469 public transport stops and 67 routes, giving it 8.36 stops per 1,000 people. This is well above the New South Wales figure, though the number of weekly departures is well below the state average.
469
Higher than 83% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.36
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
933.1
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
67
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes an average of 47 minutes, which is much higher than most other areas.
47
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Albury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10050/albury/topic/transport