5.0% ▼ -8.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oakey · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Oakey
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport in Oakey, which makes it an outlier among similar areas. Most residents rely entirely on their own cars to get around and reach work, with a 101-minute drive time to the nearest city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 35.9% of homes having two vehicles and 13.3% having three. Only 5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Oakey splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 70.1% of people as the driver and 7.1% as a passenger. Very few people work from home at 4.9%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.9% ▲ +14.7%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is a long trip, with a typical drive time of 101 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
101
Higher than 70% 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).
More for Oakey
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oakey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32209/oakey/topic/transport