Upper Glastonbury · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Upper Glastonbury

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

Nearly half of the workforce in Upper Glastonbury works from home, a figure far above the national average. This creates a unique commuting pattern where the typical resident avoids a daily trip to an office, which is likely given the area's extreme distance from the city.

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📍 Upper Glastonbury, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 71%, ahead of 4 or more (29%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Upper Glastonbury, 2 vehicles is the majority at 71%; 4 or more is next at 29%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 46.2% of people doing so, far above the 21% national figure. No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian average.

46.2%

Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 22.6%
  • 2021: 46.2%

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

0.0%

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 Upper Glastonbury, Car (driver) is the majority at 52%; Worked at home is next at 48%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops or routes. This lack of access 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).

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 186 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.

186

Higher than 97% 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 Upper Glastonbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32909/upper-glastonbury/topic/transport