4.9% ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 74% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Albany · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Albany
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people have gone without a car in Albany since 2011, with only 4.9% of homes now having no motor vehicle. Most residents rely heavily on private transport to get around, while very few use public options or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The usual home in Albany has one or two cars, and 4.9% of households have no vehicle, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Albany splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Private cars are the main way to get to work for 71% of the workforce. Only 0.8% use public transport—well below the state average—and just 5.1% work from home, which is far below the national figure.
5.1% ▲ +29.8%
Lower than 76% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Albany [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5001/albany/topic/transport