5.5% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Hedland · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Port Hedland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More public transport stops per person are found in Port Hedland than in most similar areas. While the town has a high number of bus stops, very few people actually use them to get to work. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 42.1% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011 and is about the same as the Western Australian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Port Hedland, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Reliance on cars is very high, as 71.9% of people drive to work. Very few people work from home at 2.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and only 1.1% use public transport to commute.
2.4% ▲ +60.9%
Lower than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -76.5%
Higher than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Port Hedland has 9.63 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Western Australian average of 5.48. However, the 296.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
151
Higher than 67% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.63
Higher than 98% 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).
296.9
Higher than 65% 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).
3
Lower than 62% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Port Hedland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57280/port-hedland/topic/transport