Balmoral · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Balmoral

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

Every single home in Balmoral has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This makes the area far more car-dependent than the state or national averages, where about 7% of households have no vehicle at all.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The area is heavily geared towards car ownership, with 74.2% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This explains why the percentage of homes without a motor vehicle is 0%, which is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.9%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Balmoral, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 31%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work is mostly done by car, though 13.4% of people walk and 21.3% work from home. No one here uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure.

21.3% ▲ +38.2%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 15.4%
  • 2016: 24.1%
  • 2021: 21.3%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Balmoral, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and zero routes available. This lack of infrastructure leaves the town far below the Victorian average for transport access and weekly departures.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Balmoral [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20119/balmoral/topic/transport