Glen Park · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Glen Park

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

Zero homes in Glen Park are without a motor vehicle, making car ownership an absolute necessity here. This total reliance on driving is a standout feature for the area, where public transport is entirely absent and most residents must travel over 100 minutes to reach the city.

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📍 Glen Park, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 59.4% of homes having two vehicles and 40.6% having three. This means the 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

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 Glen Park, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (31%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, and 15.0% of residents work from home, which is well below the national figure of 21.0%. The vast majority of workers rely on driving, with 58.3% commuting as the driver.

15.0%

Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 15.0%

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 Glen Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. Consequently, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.

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 around is challenging for those without a car, with a 79-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is also high at 104 minutes.

79

Higher than 96% 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.

104

Higher than 71% 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glen Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21011/glen-park/topic/transport