Oaklands · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Oaklands

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

Zero public transport options define the way people move around Oaklands. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, though a surprising number of people now work from home.

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📍 Oaklands, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with only 2.4% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

2.4% ▼ -44.4%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.3%
  • 2016: 5.6%
  • 2021: 2.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Oaklands, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by 2 vehicles (25%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Half of the workforce drive to work, while 22.8% work from home, which is a little above the Australian average. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

22.8% ▲ +313.9%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.5%
  • 2016: 15.5%
  • 2021: 22.8%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Oaklands, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 27%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves the community far below the New South Wales average for service 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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oaklands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13070/oaklands/topic/transport