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.
Ballina · Urban Area
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ballina splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -54.2%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
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.
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