Ascot · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ascot

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every single home in Ascot has a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the state and national averages. This is a place where most people rely on their own transport or work from home, as public transit is completely unavailable.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own at least two cars, with 60.5% having two and 21.1% owning four or more. No homes in the area are without a vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Ascot, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (20%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here; 28.8% of residents do so, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. For those who do travel, 59.6% drive, while no one uses public transport to get to work.

How people get to work

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In Ascot, Car (driver) is the majority at 63%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland average of 721.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 100 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

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Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
  • Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ascot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30090/ascot/topic/transport