Oak Beach · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Oak Beach

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

Almost every household in Oak Beach (L) owns a car, making it much more dependent on vehicles than most similar areas. While most people drive to work, there has been a significant shift toward working from home in recent years.

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📍 Oak Beach, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen 15 points since 2011. Half of all households own two vehicles, while another 32.8% have three or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 15.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Oak Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home has risen to 19.0% since 2011, which is well above the Queensland figure. Most residents still drive, with 58.0% of workers commuting as the driver.

19.0% ▲ +280.0%

Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 9.4%
  • 2021: 19.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

3.0% ▼ -61.8%

Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.9%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.0%

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 Oak Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

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 Oak Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322094/oak-beach/topic/transport