Ballina · Urban Area

Transport & Vehicles in Ballina

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

In Ballina, work from home is well above average and no car is below average.

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📍 Ballina, Urban Area

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

4.9% of households in Ballina have no car, down 50.5% since 2011 — below average (below both the New South Wales average of 9.2% and the national 7.4%).

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 39%, ahead of 1 vehicle (37%).

4.9% ▼ -50.5%

Lower than 74% of urban area areas.

  • 2011: 9.9%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 4.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Ballina splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

16.7% of workers in Ballina work from home, up 213.2% since 2011 — well above average (below both the New South Wales average of 31.0% and the national 21.0%). 0.3% of workers in Ballina get to work by public transport, down 54.2% since 2011, below average (below both the New South Wales average of 2.7% and the national 3.1%).

The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 59%, ahead of Worked at home (17%).

16.7% ▲ +213.2%

Higher than 84% of urban area areas.

  • 2011: 5.3%
  • 2016: 6.0%
  • 2021: 16.7%

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

0.3% ▼ -54.2%

Lower than 73% of urban area areas.

  • 2011: 0.8%
  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 2021: 0.3%

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 Ballina, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ballina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1003/ballina/topic/transport