Potholes in Ballarat

Ballarat City Council

Hit a pothole in Ballarat? Put it on the public record — a photo, the location and the date, in about 30 seconds and with no account. We work out which authority owns that stretch from where you pin it, so a report on a state arterial does not sit in a council queue that was never going to action it.

Report a pothole in Ballarat

Roads in Ballarat that are not Ballarat City Council's

27 roads through this council area are managed by the Department of Transport and Planning. Reporting a defect on one of them to the council is the most common reason a pothole report goes nowhere — it was never theirs to fix, and the clock that matters for a damage claim never starts.

Ballarat-Buninyong Road
Ballarat-Burrumbeet Road
Ballarat-Carngham Road
Ballarat-Maryborough Road
Barkly Street
Clunes-Creswick Road
Clunes-Creswick Road N
Colac-Ballarat Road
Daylesford-Ballarat Road
Daylesford-Ballarat Road N
Delacombe-Wendouree Road
Delacombe-Wendouree Road N
Delacombe-Wendouree Road S
Drummond Street
and 13 more

Source: DTP Managed Roads, State of Victoria, CC BY 4.0.

Roads already documented as bad

Published assessments by other organisations, quoted with their source. These are not reports on this register and cannot support a damage claim — they are where to look.

Midland HighwayBallarat to Geelong
116.7 km
RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.
Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026
Midland HighwayBallarat to Daylesford
91.8 km
RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.
Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026
Midland HighwayBallarat to Creswick
63.6 km
Named among roads where drivers reported damage from potholes.
Source: The Courier, Ballarat · August 2026
Western Freeway
0 km
A pothole 'the length of a small car' in the westbound lanes, pictured re-emerging a week after it was patched.
Source: The Courier, Ballarat · August 2026
Western Freeway
0 km
A driver reported a tyre blowout from a pothole at Warrenheip.
Source: The Courier, Ballarat · August 2026
Western HighwayTrawalla to Beaufort
43.1 km · 0 km from Ballarat
The roads Victorians nominated as the state's worst in 2024.
Source: RACV My Country Road 2024 results · October 2024
Midland HighwayCastlemaine to Daylesford
60.5 km · 12.9 km from Ballarat
RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.
Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026
Western Highway
0 km · 15.9 km from Ballarat
Police said emergency services were called after reports that a motorcycle had struck a pothole and lost control. The circumstances are under investigation.
Source: ABC News · September 2026

On the register in Ballarat

Nothing yet — nobody has filed a report routed to Ballarat City Council. The register publishes only what somebody actually photographed, so this says something about how new we are rather than about Ballarat's roads.

If a pothole in Ballarat damaged your car

Victoria's Road Management Act sets a threshold below which a road authority has no liability at all. For 2026-27 it is $1,681, assessed against the financial year the damage happened in. What that means for a claim.

Suburbs in Ballarat

74 gazetted localities. Each one lists its own roads and who maintains them.