2.9% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Glen Iris · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Glen Iris
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A steady reliance on cars remains the norm in Glen Iris, where very few people work from home. Only 2.9% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is a smaller proportion than the 7.4% seen across Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 42.3% having two and 14.9% having three. Very few homes have no vehicle at all, which is well below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Glen Iris, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as only 1.2% of people use public transport. The 2.8% who work from home is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
2.8% ▲ +40.5%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -71.9%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 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.
Glen Iris has 25 bus stops and 4 routes, which is more than about 90% of similar areas. However, the weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Western Australian figure.
25
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.95
Higher than 86% 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).
550.1
Higher than 79% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
While the drive time to the city is higher than most areas, residents are very close to transit, with a typical walk to the nearest stop of just one minute.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
100
Higher than 69% 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 Glen Iris [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50553/glen-iris/topic/transport