6.1% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 50% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
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Transport & Vehicles in Ballarat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get around Ballarat, where 61.6% of workers commute by car. While most households have at least one vehicle, a growing number of people are now working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 38.2% of homes have one vehicle and 37.6% have two. Only 6.1% of households live without a motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure and a decrease from 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ballarat splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has jumped 12 points since 2011 to reach 15.4%, though this is still far below the Victorian figure. Very few people use public transport to get to work, with the rate falling to 0.8%.
15.4% ▲ +380.6%
Higher than 81% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -59.3%
Higher than 60% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
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 Ballarat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2003/ballarat/topic/transport