Glenaven · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Glenaven

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

Every single home in Glenaven has at least one motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life here. This total reliance on driving is clear as the area has no public transport stops or routes at all.

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📍 Glenaven, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own two cars, with 65.2% of homes fitting this pattern. The 0.0% of homes without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Glenaven, 2 vehicles is the majority at 68%; 1 vehicle is next at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes using public transport, and 12.5% of workers do their jobs from home. This rate of working from home is well below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

12.5% ▼ -55.1%

Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 27.8%
  • 2016: 9.4%
  • 2021: 12.5%

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 Glenaven, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

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 weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.

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.

The drive time to the city is 116 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

116

Higher than 78% 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 Glenaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31153/glenaven/topic/transport