Balaklava · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Balaklava

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

Reliance on cars is a defining feature of daily life in Balaklava, where 70.7% of working residents drive themselves to work. Most households own at least one vehicle, though 7.0% of homes still have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011.

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📍 Balaklava, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 38.2% of homes have one vehicle and 34.5% have two. While 7.0% of households have no car, this is about the same as the South Australian and national figures.

7.0% ▼ -14.6%

Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.2%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 7.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Balaklava splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport is not used by anyone to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Working from home is also rare at 3.3%, far below the 21.0% seen across Australia.

3.3% ▲ +26.6%

Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 3.3%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.5%
  • 2016: 0.4%
  • 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 Balaklava, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Walked is next at 8%.

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 Balaklava [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415003/balaklava/topic/transport