Ballidu · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ballidu

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

Higher rates of working from home set Ballidu apart from similar areas. Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, and a quarter of the workforce avoids a daily trip entirely by working from home.

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📍 Ballidu, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal in Ballidu, as 0.0% of homes are without a vehicle. This is well below the Western Australian figure of 5.0%, with most households owning two or three vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 8.3%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Ballidu splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (34%), with 1 vehicle at 31%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here at 25.0%, which is far above the state figure of 7.5%. While half of the workforce drives to work and 20.8% walk, nobody uses public transport to commute.

25.0%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.0%
  • 2021: 25.0%

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

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In Ballidu, the largest group is Car (driver) at 46%, followed by Worked at home (23%) and Walked (19%).

Public transport access

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

The area has two bus stops, which is more than about 72% of similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.

34.48

Higher 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).

69.0

Higher than 65% 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.

It takes a typical resident about 18 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, a time that is around the middle for its level.

18

Higher than 57% 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.

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ballidu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50063/ballidu/topic/transport