4.6% ▼ -40.7%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Fairy · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Port Fairy
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance is a way of life in Port Fairy, where the vast majority of homes own at least one vehicle. While working from home has become much more common, the town remains heavily dependent on private transport for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have two cars, and only 4.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure. This lack of car-free homes has fallen by 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Port Fairy, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen sharply to 18.4% since 2011, though this remains a little below the national figure. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.7%, while 54.8% of workers drive themselves.
18.4% ▲ +456.1%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -9.1%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Fairy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215069/port-fairy/topic/transport