Glenwood · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Glenwood

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

Working from home in Glenwood (L) rose by 3.2 percentage points since 2011, though car travel remains the dominant way to get around. Very few people here get by without a car, with only 1.7% of homes lacking a motor vehicle.

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📍 Glenwood, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home has at least one car, and 40.5% of households own two. The 1.7% of homes without a vehicle is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8% and has barely changed since 2011.

1.7% ▲ +1.3%

Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 8.6%
  • 2021: 1.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Glenwood splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (40%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 64.7% as the driver. While 8.9% now work from home, this is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and only 1.3% of workers use public transport.

8.9% ▲ +55.5%

Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.7%
  • 2016: 8.4%
  • 2021: 8.9%

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

1.3% ▲ +141.1%

Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 1.3%

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 Glenwood, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

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 Glenwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321044/glenwood/topic/transport