Oak Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Oak Beach

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

Private cars have remained the essential way to get around Oak Beach, where every single home owns at least one vehicle. This reliance on cars is clear in a place with no public transport routes or stops available for residents.

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📍 Oak Beach, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Half of all homes in Oak Beach have two cars, and a further 32.8% own three or more. This means the area is well below the national figure for homes without a motor vehicle, which sits at 7.4%.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Oak Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 58% of residents, though 19% work from home, which is well above the Queensland figure. Public transport use for commuting is about the same as the national rate at 3%.

19.0% ▲ +27.6%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.9%
  • 2016: 9.4%
  • 2021: 19.0%

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

3.0% ▲ —

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.0%

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 Oak Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

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 Oak Beach far below the Queensland average for weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people.

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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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oak Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32205/oak-beach/topic/transport