7.3% ▼ -44.4%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Portland · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Portland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A heavy reliance on cars defines daily travel in Portland, where 71.9% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While most households own at least one vehicle, a small number of residents still get by without one. This dependence on driving is reflected in the very low numbers of people using public transport for their commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.3% of homes in Portland have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is a drop from 2011, when 13.1% of households were without a car. Most homes now have one or two vehicles, with 33% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Portland splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 6.5% of people doing so, a figure far below the national average of 21%. Public transport use for work has also fallen to just 0.6%, leaving the car as the primary way to get around.
6.5% ▲ +62.2%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -77.8%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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/ucl/UCL115121/portland/topic/transport