1.7% ▼ -49.4%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Glass House · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Glass House
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Glass House than in most other similar areas, with only 1.7% of households without a vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars is mirrored in how people get to work and the very limited local public transport options available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 39.8% owning two and 18.7% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Glass House, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has become much more common, rising 11 points since 2011 to reach 16.2%. Meanwhile, those using public transport to get to work have dropped sharply to just 1.1%, which is lower than most areas.
16.2% ▲ +200.2%
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -88.0%
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 very limited, with only 15 stops and 0.30 stops per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average. Weekly departures are also among the lowest at this level, with trains making up 70.4% of the few available services.
15
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.30
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
34.1
Lower than 97% of state electorate 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).
26
Lower than 51% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glass House [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30029/glass-house/topic/transport