7.8% ▲ +86.8%
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ipswich · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Ipswich
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Roughly 65% of workers in Ipswich drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the number of households without a car has risen to 7.8% since 2011. This is a little above the Queensland figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, though 7.8% of Ipswich homes have no motor vehicle. This is higher than most similar areas and represents a 3.6 percentage point increase since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ipswich splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 10.4% of people doing so. Very few residents use public transport to get to work, at just 1.9%, which is a little below the national figure.
10.4% ▲ +81.4%
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▲ +29.8%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
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.
Ipswich has 43 public transport routes and 215 stops, with buses making up 93.7% of the network. The number of stops per 1,000 people is 4.26, which is well above the Queensland figure.
215
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.26
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
787.0
Lower than 59% of state electorate 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).
43
Higher than 79% of state electorate 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ipswich [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30037/ipswich/topic/transport