5.0% ▼ -47.2%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ipswich West · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Ipswich West
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift towards private cars has seen the number of homes without a motor vehicle in Ipswich West drop by 4.4 points since 2011. Now only 5% of households lack a car, while public transport use for commuting has fallen sharply. This reliance on driving is reflected in the area's modest transit options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 37.1% owning two and 10.2% having four or more. The 5% of households without a vehicle is about the same as the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ipswich West splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 65.9% of people as the driver. Only 1.3% use public transport, which is a little below the national figure and far lower than it was in 2011.
10.8% ▲ +294.0%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -78.8%
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 options are limited, with just 19 routes and 170 stops. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are 546.5, which is well below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
170
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.16
Lower than 79% 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).
546.5
Lower than 68% 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).
19
Lower than 70% 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 West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30038/ipswich-west/topic/transport