Glenview · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Glenview

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

Not a single home in Glenview is without a motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life here. While public transport options are more available than in many similar areas, they are rarely used by those heading to work.

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📍 Glenview, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal, with 0.0% of homes lacking a vehicle—a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. Most households have multiple cars, with 36.1% owning two and 25.7% owning four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.5%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Glenview, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 4 or more (25%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The car is the dominant way to travel, with 65.6% of workers driving. While 15.5% of people work from home, only 0.8% use public transport to commute, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.0%.

15.5% ▲ +30.3%

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 8.4%
  • 2021: 15.5%

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

0.8% ▼ -11.0%

Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.8%

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 Glenview, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport access is higher than in most similar areas, with 3.58 stops per 1,000 people and 837.4 weekly departures. There are five stops and two routes in the area, all of which are bus services.

3.58

Higher than 72% 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).

837.4

Higher than 85% 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.

It takes a typical resident about 16 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 75 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this level.

16

Higher than 54% 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.

75

Higher 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)).
  • 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 Glenview [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31175/glenview/topic/transport