Glenden · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Glenden

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

Most people in Glenden rely on a car to get to work, with 61% of workers driving themselves. It is a place where vehicle ownership is nearly universal and public transport use is significantly higher than the national figure.

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📍 Glenden, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Glenden has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households without one. Nearly half of homes have one vehicle, while 40.4% have two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Glenden splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (44%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport use for work has risen to 6.3%, a figure well above the Queensland average of 3%. Conversely, only 4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.

4.0% ▲ +24.7%

Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 15.6%
  • 2021: 4.0%

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

6.3% ▲ +285.4%

Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 6.3%

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 Glenden, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Car (passenger) is next at 10%.

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 Glenden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322050/glenden/topic/transport