5.3% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Hedland · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Port Hedland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Port Hedland relies on a car to get around, with only 5.3% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This high dependence on driving is reflected in the way people travel for work, where very few residents use public transport or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have more than one car, with 42.3% owning two vehicles and 15.4% owning three. The number of homes without a vehicle has fallen slightly since 2011 to 5.3%, which is a little below the national figure.
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.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 72.2% of residents, while only 2.4% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure. Public transport use is also very low at 1.1%, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
2.4% ▲ +58.8%
Lower than 90% of urban centre 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% ▼ -67.3%
Higher than 77% of urban centre 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/ucl/UCL513004/port-hedland/topic/transport