Geographic Profile

Strategic Location

Ballarat is located along the fast growing Western Highway corridor in the Central Highlands region of Victoria, 110km north west of Melbourne. The City of Ballarat Municipality covers an area of approximately 740 square kilometres and includes the townships of Buninyong, Miners Rest, Learmonth and Cardigan Village.

It is bound by Hepburn, Moorabool, Golden Plains and Pyrenees Shires.

Easily accessible by road and rail, the City of Ballarat is serviced by four major highways, the Western Freeway, Midland, Glenelg and Sunraysia highways, and via rail along the interstate rail transport corridor between Melbourne and Adelaide in South Australia through to Perth in Western Australia.

Ballarat's close proximity to Melbourne allows for easy access to metropolitan Melbourne, with the Tullamarine International Airport just over an hour away, as is the Port of Melbourne, which is Australia's largest container and general cargo port.