2.1% ▼ -71.8%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oakdale · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Oakdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 2.1% of homes in Oakdale have no motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is exceptionally common. Most residents rely on their own transport to get around, with very few using public options. This dependence on cars is reflected in the way people travel for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are a staple here, as 43.8% of homes have two vehicles and another 33.5% have three or more. The share of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Oakdale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (20%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 63.4% of residents, while 17.7% now work from home, a figure that rose 15 points since 2011. No one in the area used public transport to commute in 2021, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.
17.7% ▲ +457.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oakdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121092/oakdale/topic/transport