6.4% ▼ -32.3%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 6.4%
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.
Working from home has surged in Ballarat, with the share of people doing so rising by 13 percentage points since 2011. This shift comes as the area relies heavily on cars, with most homes owning at least one vehicle. While more people now work from home, very few use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, and the share of homes without any motor vehicle has fallen to 6.4% since 2011. This figure is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains a little below the Victorian average of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ballarat splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work for 61.5% of residents. While 15.3% of the workforce now works from home, this is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%; meanwhile, public transport use has fallen to just 0.9%.
15.3% ▲ +496.0%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -75.3%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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/ucl/UCL203001/ballarat/topic/transport