5.3% ▼ -14.4%
Lower than 66% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Hedland · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Port Hedland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Port Hedland rely on public transport for work than in most similar areas, though overall car use remains dominant. The town sees a strong preference for private vehicles, with 72.2% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, and 42.3% own two. Only 5.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Port Hedland, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here, at just 2.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use for work is also low at 1.1%, and this has fallen since 2011.
2.4% ▲ +57.3%
Lower than 98% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -67.1%
Higher than 69% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Port Hedland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5010/port-hedland/topic/transport