5.4% ▼ -58.2%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oakey · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Oakey
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 73% of people in Oakey drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most households have at least one vehicle, and the number of homes without a car has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39% of homes have one vehicle and 35% have two. Only 5.4% of households lack a motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 7.6 percentage points since 2011 and is about the same as the Queensland average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Oakey splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary choice for workers, while those working from home are far fewer than in the rest of the state at just 4%. Public transport use has completely disappeared since 2011, falling from 5.5% to 0%.
4.0% ▼ -39.6%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
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: 5.5%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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 Oakey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315076/oakey/topic/transport