1.2% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Glenella · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Glenella
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.2% of homes in Glenella lack a motor vehicle, showing how essential cars are for daily life here. Most households own multiple vehicles, while very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The vast majority of homes have at least one car, with 47.7% owning two and 19.2% owning three. This means far fewer homes are without a vehicle than the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Glenella, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 72.2% as the driver. Very few people work from home at 5.3%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
5.3% ▲ +50.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -55.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is provided entirely by buses, with 7 stops and one route serving the area. While this is more than many similar areas, the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland average.
7
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.54
Higher than 63% 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).
90.9
Higher than 67% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 19 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for its level.
19
Higher than 58% 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.
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).
More for Glenella
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glenella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31159/glenella/topic/transport