Balmoral · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Balmoral

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

Zero homes without a motor vehicle is a striking figure for Balmoral (L), where car ownership is far more common than in most other areas. This high reliance on private transport defines how people move in and out of the area.

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📍 Balmoral, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here owns a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national rates for those without cars. Most households have multiple vehicles, with 43.1% owning two and 17.2% owning four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.6%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Balmoral, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Not one person uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. While 19.6% of residents now work from home—a rise of 6.6 points since 2011—the most common way to travel is by driving, used by 57.4% of workers.

19.6% ▲ +50.4%

Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 13.0%
  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 19.6%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Balmoral, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

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 Balmoral [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122011/balmoral/topic/transport