7.1% ▲ +98.2%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ilfracombe · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ilfracombe
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of working residents in Ilfracombe drive themselves to work, making the car the most common way to get around. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the town is notable for a very high number of people who work from home compared to other areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 31.6% owning two and 19.4% owning four or more. However, 7.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ilfracombe splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 1 vehicle (29%), with 4 or more at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, at 29.3%, which is far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. No one uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national average.
29.3% ▲ +12.9%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Ilfracombe. This leaves the town with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the state average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ilfracombe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31383/ilfracombe/topic/transport