4.4% ▲ +47.0%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ballan · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ballan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has jumped by 13 percentage points since 2011 in Ballan. This shift is part of a broader change in how people get around, with more residents now skipping the daily commute. While most still rely on cars, a growing number of people are using different ways to work and travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 3% more homes have no motor vehicle than in 2011, but only 4.4% of Ballan households are without a car. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, with the majority of homes owning either one or two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ballan splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly one in five workers (18.7%) now work from home, which is much higher than most similar areas. Public transport use for work has also risen to 1.9% since 2011, though 58% of residents still primarily drive themselves to work.
18.7% ▲ +229.7%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▲ +194.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Ballan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215006/ballan/topic/transport