Glen Niven · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Glen Niven

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

A huge gap exists between Glen Niven and the rest of the country regarding public transport, with no available services in the area. Residents rely almost entirely on their own cars to get around, which is reflected in the fact that every single home here owns at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Glen Niven, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Glen Niven has a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia. Most households have multiple cars, with 31.4% owning two and another 25.7% owning three.

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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 Niven, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 3 vehicles (29%) and 1 vehicle (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes by public transport, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 52.4% of people drive to work and 19% work from home, a rate that is well above the Queensland average.

19.0%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 11.9%
  • 2021: 19.0%

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

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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 Niven, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

There are zero public transport stops and routes in the area. This means there are no weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the Queensland average.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glen Niven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31148/glen-niven/topic/transport