1.8% ▼ -64.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oakwood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Oakwood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are essential for daily life in Oakwood, where only 1.8% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This reliance on driving is clear because there are no public transport routes or stops available for residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, with 48% owning one vehicle and 31.6% having two. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is well below both the Queensland and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Oakwood, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost everyone here drives to work, as 69.5% are drivers and another 4.6% are passengers. Very few people work from home at 4.6%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.6% ▼ -66.3%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 4.6%
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: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero routes and stops. This leaves Oakwood far below the state average for 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 27 minutes, a figure that is higher than most similar areas.
27
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oakwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32213/oakwood/topic/transport