Oombabeer · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Oombabeer

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

A stark shift towards remote work defines the transport landscape in Oombabeer, where 55.9% of people now work from home. This is far above the national figure of 21.0% and highlights a community that relies almost entirely on private cars or home offices to get things done.

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📍 Oombabeer, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Oombabeer has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland rate of 5.8% for homes without one. Most households have one or two cars, though 15.0% of homes own four or more.

Motor vehicles per home

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Oombabeer splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (41%), with 4 or more at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 55.9% of people doing so, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Queensland. No one uses public transport to get to work, with the rest of the workforce mostly driving or walking.

55.9%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 45.7%
  • 2021: 55.9%

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 Oombabeer, Worked at home is the majority at 51%; Car (driver) is next at 38%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Oombabeer, with zero stops or routes available. This leaves the area far below the Queensland average of 2.99 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oombabeer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32225/oombabeer/topic/transport