Glen Innes · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Glen Innes

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

A sharp drop in public transport use marks a shift in how people move around Glen Innes. Since 2011, the share of workers using public transport to get to work has fallen from 9.5% to nothing. This change comes as more residents rely on cars or work from home.

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📍 Glen Innes, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 9.4% of homes in Glen Innes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most areas and rose 5.7 points since 2011. Most households have one or two vehicles, while 4.5% of homes own four or more.

9.4% ▲ +154.8%

Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.7%
  • 2016: 7.7%
  • 2021: 9.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Glen Innes, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (10%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has risen to 7.0%, though this remains far below the national figure of 21.0%. Most people drive themselves to work (63.3%), while no one now uses public transport to commute.

7.0% ▲ +123.1%

Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 7.0%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 9.5%
  • 2016: 0.7%
  • 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 Glen Innes, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Glen Innes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114011/glen-innes/topic/transport