Albury · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Albury

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

Fewer people use public transport to get to work in Albury than in most similar areas, despite the town having a high number of stops. Only 0.4% of the workforce uses public transit for their commute, and cars remain the dominant way to get around.

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📍 Albury, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, and 37.3% of households own two. Only 6.3% of Albury homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the national average and has fallen since 2011.

6.3% ▼ -22.9%

Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 6.8%
  • 2021: 6.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Albury splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 68% of people commuting as a driver. Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, at 10.4%, and public transport use for work is among the lowest at this level.

10.4% ▲ +83.8%

Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 5.7%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 10.4%

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

0.4% ▼ -35.1%

Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Albury, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Public transport access

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

Albury has a large number of stops and 77 routes, with 6.04 stops per 1,000 people, which is a little above the New South Wales figure. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.

6.04

Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

622.6

Lower than 65% of state electorate 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 Albury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10001/albury/topic/transport