Oolong · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Oolong

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

A far higher proportion of people work from home in Oolong than the national figure, with 35.7% of the workforce doing so. This reflects a place where remote work is common and traditional commuting is rare. Public transport is virtually non-existent here, leaving most residents to rely on cars or home offices.

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📍 Oolong, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 53%, ahead of 1 vehicle (26%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Oolong, 2 vehicles is the majority at 56%; 1 vehicle is next at 28%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 36% of workers in Oolong work from home, a figure far above the Australian average of 21%. Because of this, and with 46.4% of people driving to work, public transport use is well below the national level at 0%.

35.7%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 18.2%
  • 2021: 35.7%

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 Oolong, Car (driver) is the majority at 57%; Worked at home is next at 43%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Oolong, which is far below the New South Wales average for stops per 1,000 people. Weekly departures are also non-existent compared to the state figure.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oolong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13098/oolong/topic/transport