5.9% ▼ -36.0%
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Balranald · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Balranald
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 60% of workers in Balranald rely on driving a car to get to work. Most households own at least one vehicle, and the number of homes without a car has fallen to 5.9% since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 37% owning two and 15.2% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Balranald, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.4% of people use public transport to get to work, which is a little below the national figure. Working from home is far below the state level at 12%, while 9.7% of workers walk to their jobs.
12.0% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -67.5%
Lower than 68% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to five bus routes with eight stops. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure, with only 31.7 departures compared to 1,313.6 across the state.
8
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.62
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
31.7
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
5
Lower than 55% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Balranald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA10300/balranald/topic/transport