4.9% ▲ +19.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Silky Oak · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Silky Oak
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of working residents in Silky Oak drive themselves to work. While car use is the norm, the area sees a higher-than-usual share of people using public transport to commute compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 37.7% having two vehicles and 23% owning three. About 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Silky Oak, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is 7.2%, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figures. In contrast, 13.3% of people work from home, a rate well below the national figure.
13.3% ▲ +6.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
7.2% ▲ —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 stops or routes in the area. This leaves the local transit access 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).
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Silky Oak [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32562/silky-oak/topic/transport