5.3% ▼ -21.4%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Albany · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Albany
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Albany than across the rest of the country, with only 4.5% doing so. Most residents rely heavily on cars for their daily travel, which is common for a regional hub. While car use is dominant, about 5.3% of homes do not own a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 38% of Albany homes have two motor vehicles, and 13.4% have three. The proportion of households without a car is 5.3%, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Albany splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 71.3% of people acting as the driver. This helps explain why only 0.8% use public transport, a figure that is well below the state average and has barely changed since 2011.
4.5% ▲ +26.3%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 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/ucl/UCL512001/albany/topic/transport