Ballyrogan · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ballyrogan

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

Every single home in Ballyrogan has a motor vehicle, making private cars essential for daily life. This reliance on cars is matched by a high number of people working from home, with 30.4% of the workforce doing so.

Open map →
📍 Ballyrogan, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are common here, with 51.7% of homes having two vehicles and 34.5% owning four or more. No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

Motor vehicles per home

View on map →

In Ballyrogan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 4 or more (29%) and 1 vehicle (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking and driving are the primary ways to get to work, while 0.0% of people use public transport. This is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.

30.4% —

Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 53.3%
  • 2021: 30.4%

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

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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

View on map →

In Ballyrogan, Car (driver) is the majority at 52%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are 0.0, which is far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city is a significant journey, with a drive time of 133 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

133

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

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)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

More for Ballyrogan

Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ballyrogan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20117/ballyrogan/topic/transport