1.5% ▲ —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ashfield · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ashfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few homes in Ashfield go without a car, with only 1.5% of households lacking a motor vehicle. This makes the area much more dependent on private transport than the state or national average. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around and get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have more than one car, with 56.2% owning two vehicles and 14% owning three. The 1.5% of homes without a vehicle is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ashfield, 2 vehicles is the majority at 57%; 1 vehicle is next at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the primary way to get to work, with 67.3% of people driving and 11.8% travelling as passengers. Only 5.8% of the workforce works from home, which is far below the national figure.
5.8% ▲ +8.7%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% ▲ —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is provided entirely by bus services. While the area has more stops and routes than many similar places, the number of weekly departures and overall access remain far below the Queensland average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.87
Higher than 61% 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).
10.4
Higher than 58% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest stop takes about 26 minutes on average, which is higher than in most similar areas.
26
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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).
More for Ashfield
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ashfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30091/ashfield/topic/transport