3.2% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ball Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ball Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Heavy reliance on cars defines daily travel in Ball Bay, where over 71% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. Most households own multiple vehicles, and very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
More than half of all homes have two vehicles, and only 3.2% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ball Bay, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 1 vehicle is next at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant choice for workers, while only 6.7% work from home, which is far below the Australian average of 21%. A small number of people use public transport for their commute, at 1.8%.
6.7% ▲ +21.7%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▼ -53.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 1.8%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, meaning access is far below the Queensland figure.
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).
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 Ball Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30127/ball-bay/topic/transport