Glenthompson · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Glenthompson

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

Zero homes without a motor vehicle defines the transport landscape in Glenthompson. This is well below the Victorian and national figures, where roughly 7% of households have no car. In this rural area, private vehicles are essential for getting around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Glenthompson has at least one motor vehicle. Most households have one or two cars, though about 10% of homes have four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.3%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Glenthompson splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 27.6% of residents doing so—a figure well above the Australian average of 21%. The rest mostly drive themselves to work, as 0% of the workforce uses public transport to commute.

27.6% ▲ +69.3%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 16.3%
  • 2016: 19.6%
  • 2021: 27.6%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Glenthompson, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 32%.

Public transport access

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

While the area has more stops per person than the state average, services are infrequent. There is only one bus route and two stops, with weekly departures far below the Victorian figure.

7.81

Higher than 86% 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).

109.4

Higher than 70% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glenthompson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21048/glenthompson/topic/transport