1.2% ▲ —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oakhurst · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Oakhurst
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no homes in Oakhurst are without a car, with only 1.2% of households lacking a vehicle. This makes car ownership far more common here than across Queensland or Australia. Most residents rely heavily on their own transport to get around the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 43.1% owning two and 23.6% owning three. Only 1.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Oakhurst, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 75.8% of workers being the driver. Very few people work from home at 4.7%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
4.7% ▲ +109.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -70.8%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 access to services is far below the Queensland average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oakhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32211/oakhurst/topic/transport