Glendon · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Glendon

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Over half of the workers in Glendon drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars in this rural area. With no public transport available, every single household in the community owns at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Glendon, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 21.6% of homes owning four or more vehicles. This means no homes in Glendon are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Glendon, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 4 or more (27%) and 1 vehicle (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 17.3% of residents, though this is well below the national figure of 21%. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

17.3%

Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 17.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Glendon, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This puts Glendon far below the New South Wales average for service access.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city is a significant journey, with a drive time of 125 minutes, which is much higher than most other areas.

125

Higher than 83% 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)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

More for Glendon

Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glendon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11664/glendon/topic/transport