Glen Esk · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Glen Esk

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

Zero homes in Glen Esk lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This reliance on private cars is expected in a rural area where public transport is almost entirely absent.

Open map →
📍 Glen Esk, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Glen Esk has at least one motor vehicle. About 18% of households have one car, while 13.6% each have two or three vehicles.

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

View on map →

In Glen Esk, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (30%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 35%, ahead of Worked at home (29%).

How people get to work

View on map →

In Glen Esk, Car (driver) is the majority at 55%; Worked at home is next at 45%.

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 no routes serving the area. This means the number of weekly departures and the number of people reachable by transit are both zero, which is far below the Queensland figure.

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).

0

Lower than 99% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is a challenge without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 64 minutes. This is much higher than most areas, and the drive to the city takes about 64 minutes.

64

Higher than 87% 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.

64

Lower than 53% 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).

More for Glen Esk

Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glen Esk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31146/glen-esk/topic/transport