Southern Tablelands vs Belconnen

Southern Tablelands and Belconnen offer very different living environments. Belconnen is very walkable, with 99.5% of homes within a 15-minute walk of a park and 98.2% near public transport. In contrast, Southern Tablelands is mostly car-dependent, where only 40% of homes are near a park and 21.5% are close to transport. This gap extends to education and income for First Nations people; in Belconnen, 60.8% of First Nations residents finished Year 12 and the typical personal income is $964, while in Southern Tablelands, 39.1% finished Year 12 and the typical personal income is $633.

Since 2011, these two areas have tracked along a similar path in some specific ways. Both have First Nations populations with the same typical age of 24, and both areas share a similar terrain slope. While Belconnen has a much larger First Nations population and higher incomes, the unemployment rate for First Nations people is only a little higher in Southern Tablelands at 7.2% compared to 6.1% in Belconnen.