5.7% ▼ -53.3%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Portland · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Portland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every resident in Portland relies on a car for their daily needs. While the number of homes without a vehicle has dropped significantly to 5.7%, the area remains heavily dependent on private transport for getting to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 38% having two and 13.5% owning three. Only 5.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Portland splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the dominant way to get to work, as only 0.1% of people use public transport, a figure well below the national average. Working from home is also far less common here than across Australia, with just 6.1% of workers doing so.
6.1% ▲ +216.8%
Lower than 68% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.1% ▼ -95.8%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.1%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Portland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2014/portland/topic/transport