Oakwood · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Oakwood

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.

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📍 Oakwood, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 1.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Oakwood, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 5.4%
  • 2016: 15.4%
  • 2021: 4.6%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Oakwood, Car (driver) is the majority at 86%; Car (passenger) is next at 6%.

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 Oakwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322095/oakwood/topic/transport