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Ballarat traffic signals

77 signals with traffic counts in Ballarat, from 2023 to 3 Oct 2026.

  • Signals
    77
    in Ballarat
  • With recent counts
    68
    counted in the last 12 months
  • Busiest weekday volume
    70,345
    vehicles per weekday, Learmonth St Near Cuthberts Rd

Busiest signals

Where Ballarat is busiest

The ten signals with the most traffic on an average weekday. A signal where faulty detectors left out most of the traffic is not ranked.

Busiest signals in Ballarat
SignalWeekday volumeAM peakPM peakOpen in the map
Learmonth St Near Cuthberts RdSite 5884 70,345 5,425 5,867 Open
Howitt / Learmonth / GilliesSite 5903 59,123 4,015 5,203 Open
Delacombe-Wendouree / GregorySite 5856 55,709 4,259 4,863 Open
Ballarat-Carngham Rd / Wiltshire Ln / Learmonth StSite 5863 37,704 3,109 3,320 Open
Sturt St / DovetonSite 5819 36,220 2,547 2,889 Open
Sturt / DrummondSite 5820 34,708 2,492 2,919 Open
Sturt / GilliesSite 5824 34,174 2,670 2,999 Open
Gillies St Btn Carlton St & Lake GardensSite 5850 32,956 2,731 2,804 Open
Sturt / PleasantSite 5821 32,238 2,489 2,817 Open
Midland Highway / Glenelg Highway / Sayle StreetSite 5864 27,630 2,120 2,341 Open

Weekday volume is vehicles per weekday; peaks are vehicles in the busiest hour of the morning and afternoon.

Worth a look

Signals worth a look

Signals with crashes, detector changes, a gap in counts or a large change in volume. A starting point for a closer look, not a verdict.

  1. Victoria / Fussell / Water
    Site 5806 · 20,852 vehicles per weekday
    • Fatal/serious crashes: 3 (5 yrs)
    • High crash rate (0.14 per million)
    Open
  2. Victoria / Queen
    Site 5808 · 19,600 vehicles per weekday
    • Fatal/serious crashes: 3 (5 yrs)
    • High crash rate (0.23 per million)
    Open
  3. Ballarat-Buninyong / Barkly
    Site 5876 · 14,358 vehicles per weekday
    • Fatal/serious crashes: 3 (5 yrs)
    • High crash rate (0.20 per million)
    Open
  4. Midland Hwy(doveton) / Dana
    Site 5950 · 22,252 vehicles per weekday
    • Fatal/serious crashes: 2 (5 yrs)
    • OP sheet older than the last detector change
    Open
  5. Midland HWY (skipton St) / Leith
    Site 5958
    • Fatal/serious crashes: 2 (5 yrs)
    • Silent since 30 Jun 2025
    Open
Why these signals?
  • Fatal/serious crashes: 2 or more fatal or serious injury crashes at the signal, 1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025 (the last five full calendar years).
  • High crash rate: injury crashes per million entering vehicles in the top 10% of the council's 54 rated signals (0.14 or more), counting only signals with 5,000+ weekday vehicles and 3+ crashes. A rate needs a full year of counts (300+ days) behind it.
  • Detector changes: 2 or more start, stop or shift events in the last 12 months, or any in the last 90 days of the record.
  • OP sheet older: the date printed on the published sheet is earlier than the last detector change, so its layout may be out of date.
  • Silent: no counts for more than 60 days before the end of the record.
  • Mostly faulty detectors: more than 50% of the signal's traffic over its last 12 months was on detectors left out as faulty. Such a signal gets no volume-growth or crash-rate reason, because its volume covers the working lanes only.
  • Volume: 10% or more up or down year on year. Withheld where detectors changed and too little traffic stayed on the loops counted both years.
  • Ranked by crash reasons first, then fatal/serious crashes, then the number of other reasons, then weekday volume. Signals with no reason are not listed.

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About this data

What these figures are

Counts come from the vehicle detectors at traffic signals across Victoria. Weekday volume is the average number of vehicles through a signal on a weekday, and the AM and PM peaks are the busiest hour of the morning and afternoon, each over the signal’s most recent 12 months of counts. Detectors that are faulty are left out. Updated regularly.

Source: Department of Transport and Planning, via DataVic (Traffic Signal Volume Data and Victorian Traffic Signals), licensed CC BY 4.0. Independent; not affiliated with any road authority. Indicative analysis; verify against official sources before relying on it. See data coverage for how each figure is worked out.