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Where to eat and stay in Ballarat

204 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Ballarat, Victoria — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

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We hold 204 venues in Ballarat — 172 places to eat and 32 to stay. That makes it the 3rd-largest of the 1221 towns and suburbs we cover in Victoria, carrying 1% of the region's venues. Nationally it sits 16th out of 6,269 places.

Of the places to eat, 32% are cafés against a national figure of 30%. That is close to the New Zealand norm — Ballarat eats roughly the way the country does. The full split is 55 cafés, 47 restaurants, 50 takeaways, 3 bars and 17 pubs.

89 of the 172 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are coffee shop (14), burger (13) and fish and chips (10). Relative to the rest of the country Ballarat is unusually strong on juice, fish and chips and sandwich — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 59 publish opening hours (29%), 26 are recorded as step-free, 17 have outdoor seating and 22 flag vegetarian options. Coverage here is better than the 17% national average, so the hours below are more reliable than most.

For a bed, Ballarat runs to 32 listings — 10 hotels, 11 motels, 1 b&bs and guest houses, 2 serviced apartments and 8 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 34% of the town's accommodation.

Places of a similar size — Toowoomba (216), North Sydney (192), North Canberra (189) and Launceston (220) — average 11% accommodation. Ballarat runs at 16%, much the same, so on this measure it behaves like its peers.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 23 of the 204 venues in Ballarat carry at least six recorded attributes and so have a page of their own; the rest are listed here, because a page with only a name and a map pin on it would be worth nobody's time. A blank field means unrecorded, not absent. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, no venue has paid to appear, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own.

Cafés in Ballarat (55)

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Restaurants in Ballarat (47)

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Takeaways in Ballarat (50)

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Bars in Ballarat (3)

Pubs in Ballarat (17)

Hotels in Ballarat (10)

Motels in Ballarat (11)

B&Bs and guest houses in Ballarat (1)

Serviced apartments in Ballarat (2)

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Ballarat (8)

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Amit Sharma

Auckland real estate agent and social media marketer. I build these sites so the answer is free and the data is public.