3.0% ▲ +13.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Albert · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Port Albert
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership remains the dominant way to get around Port Albert, with very few households lacking a vehicle. This reliance on driving is clear as the town has no public transport routes or stops, making private cars essential for almost every resident.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 41.1% have two. Only 3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Port Albert splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 54.5% of workers being the driver. No one uses public transport to commute, and 16.7% work from home, which is well below the national figure of 21%.
16.7% ▲ +377.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city takes a long time, with a typical drive of 147 minutes. Because there are no local services, the walk to the nearest stop is among the highest at this level, taking about 80 minutes.
80
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality 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.
147
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Port Albert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22103/port-albert/topic/transport