0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Balnarring Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Balnarring Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Balnarring Beach owns a car, making it an area where residents rely heavily on private transport. Very few people use public transit to get to work, while over a quarter of the workforce now works from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 53.7% owning two vehicles and 13.7% having three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Balnarring Beach, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 1 vehicle is next at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 26.5% of people doing so, which is well above the Australian figure of 21%. Nobody uses public transport to get to work, leaving the car as the primary choice for 50.3% of drivers.
26.5% ▲ +123.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 26.5%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is virtually non-existent, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city takes 59 minutes by car. For those without a vehicle, it is a long trip to the nearest stop, with a walking time of 26 minutes.
26
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
59
Lower than 57% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Balnarring Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20121/balnarring-beach/topic/transport