2.0% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Portland North · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Portland North
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops serve Portland North, making the area entirely dependent on private cars. This is a place where almost every home owns a vehicle, and the vast majority of working residents must drive themselves to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as only 2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Half of all households own two vehicles, and another 13.7% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Portland North, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 3 vehicles (18%) and 1 vehicle (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, with 70.6% of workers driving themselves. Only 9% of people work from home, which is far below the 21% national average.
9.0% ▲ +146.8%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 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 routes or stops in the area. This puts Portland North far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.
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.
The lack of local services is clear, as the walk to the nearest stop takes about 82 minutes, one of the highest times for areas of this type.
82
Higher than 98% 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.
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).
More for Portland North
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Portland North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22111/portland-north/topic/transport