Alberta · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Alberta

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

Six in ten working residents in Alberta work from home, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on home-based work is a defining feature of the area, which has almost no use of public transport for commuting.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 45%, ahead of No vehicle (0%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Alberta, 2 vehicles is the majority at 100%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is incredibly common here at 60%, which is far above the 21% national figure. Very few people use public transport to get to work, with 0% doing so, well below the Australian average of 3.1%.

60.0%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 34.3%
  • 2021: 60.0%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Alberta, Worked at home is the majority at 63%; Car (driver) is next at 21%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is virtually non-existent in Alberta, with zero stops and routes available. This lack of access is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Alberta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30021/alberta/topic/transport