1.8% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gledswood Hills · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gledswood Hills
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of all homes in Gledswood Hills have two motor vehicles, reflecting a strong reliance on cars for daily travel. While many residents drive, the area has a very high rate of people working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households go without a car, with only 1.8% having no vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most homes have two cars, while 15.4% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gledswood Hills, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 1 vehicle is next at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, with 34.1% of workers doing so. Driving is the most common commute for 44.2% of the workforce, while only 2.0% use public transport.
34.1% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Bus travel is the only public transport option available here. The area has 28 stops and 7 routes, which is larger than about 91% of similar areas, though the number of stops per person is a little below the state figure.
28
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.58
Higher than 76% 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).
1,172.8
Higher than 87% 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).
7
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
14,299
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
14,299
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 8 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop. The drive time to the city is 45 minutes, which is lower than most areas.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
45
Lower than 65% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Gledswood Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11646/gledswood-hills/topic/transport