2.8% ▲ —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Balmoral Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Balmoral Ridge
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has become a defining feature for Balmoral Ridge, where 33.1% of residents now skip the daily commute. This high rate of home-based work is far above both the state and national figures, highlighting a shift in how people in this area manage their professional lives.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 46.7% having two vehicles and 19.6% having three. Only 2.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Balmoral Ridge, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
A huge 33.1% of people work from home, which is far above the Queensland average of 14.1%. Because of this, almost nobody uses public transport to get to work, with 0.0% doing so.
33.1% ▲ +81.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Balmoral Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30133/balmoral-ridge/topic/transport