1.8% ▲ —
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Oakwood · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Oakwood (L) relies on a car to get around. With very few people working from home or using public transport, private vehicles are the primary way residents access work and services.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 48% of homes owning one vehicle and 31.6% owning two. Only 1.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
1.8% ▲ —
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Oakwood, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers drive, with 69.5% being the driver and another 4.6% travelling as passengers. Only 4.6% of people work from home, a figure far below the national average, and no one uses public transport to get to work.
4.6% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Oakwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322095/oakwood/topic/transport