Oakhampton Heights · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Oakhampton Heights

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

Almost every home in Oakhampton Heights has a car, making it far more vehicle-dependent than the state average. This is a place where people rely on their own transport, with a typical household owning two or more vehicles.

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📍 Oakhampton Heights, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most families have multiple cars, with 51.2% owning two and 39% owning four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Oakhampton Heights, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 4 or more (35%) and 3 vehicles (13%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 61.2% of residents. While 25.4% work from home, which is well above the national figure, no one in the area uses public transport to commute.

25.4%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 4.4%
  • 2021: 25.4%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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 Oakhampton Heights, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 29%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is virtually non-existent here, with zero stops and routes. This puts the area far below the New South Wales average for transport access.

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Lower than 99% 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).

0.0

Lower than 99% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is a challenge without a car, as it takes over an hour to walk to the nearest stop. A drive to the city takes 112 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

62

Higher than 86% 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.

112

Higher than 76% 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 Oakhampton Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13068/oakhampton-heights/topic/transport