6.1% ▲ +111.7%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 6.1%
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.
Almost every household in Portland relies on a car to get around. Very few people use public transport or work from home, meaning the town's daily rhythm is heavily driven by private vehicle use.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though 6.1% have no motor vehicle. This figure is higher than in most similar areas and has risen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Portland splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.2% of residents. Very few people use public transport (0.1%), and at 6.0%, the number of people working from home is far below the national figure.
6.0% ▲ +2.9%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.1% ▼ -96.1%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 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/ucl/UCL213012/portland/topic/transport